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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

In 2011 I got a call from Andrew Chen to come out and work for him at a startup that he was running, which was my first time working in a very, very rigorous environment, focused on user growth and experimentation. Is there hiring decisions? Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. “To help students earn the trust of employers, we had to first prove our security posture to universities” Adam: The experience came to an end in 2011 when the shuttle program was retired, and I made the jump from aerospace to entrepreneurship.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. That money brought us two phenomenal teammates, a really helpful mentor who's still on our board, and lots of connections and help from investors. of the $3.5M

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

Spent some time at Orbits and a couple of other firms, and then eventually landed in San Francisco and joined ADARA. And this is 2011. I think the next thing that was really critical was, you cannot discount the need to actually hire locally as well.