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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

You’ll need to hire aggressively to get to the next level and continue that rapid growth. But what roles should you hire for, and what will your org chart look like at each stage? billion in 2012. David considers product to be its own department that should also report directly to the CEO, instead of falling under the CTO.

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4 Lessons For SaaS Startups From Optimizely's Early Days

Tom Tunguz

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

CTO Coach 101
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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Andy Yates, Staff Engineer 📍Started at Buffer in June 2012 as iOS Engineering Lead 🌎 Location: California, U.S. ⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. He moved into various senior and leadership roles (which makes sense, given his focus below!)

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

SaaStr

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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Whose Company Is It Anyway? Differences between Founders and Hired CEOs

OPEXEngine

Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. You become a hired CEO primarily through one path — climbing the corporate ladder at a large tech company [5a], reaching the GM or CXO level, and then deciding to branch out. 6] Like it or not, it’s not a bad three-part formula for climbing the corporate ladder.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Liam Geraghty: From the very start, Intercom’s mission has always been to make internet business personal, so it’s not surprising that we’ve been podcasting for a long time; since 2012, in fact. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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