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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Let’s hire an amazing VP of product who’s going to answer this question for us and kind of have the frameworks to do it.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

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One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? This is 15 years of innovation in data security, compliance, and protection of content. Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules. All of those issues, those are front and center for every organization.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

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Jason Lemkin: And when I look back, maybe the fourth SaaStr post I wrote in 2012, I was walking, bumming around downtown Palo Alto and the last boarded up retail reopened. But so it was four years, the last time when the cloud was smaller, right? From contract signature to launch. I have a one year contract. Let them go.