SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. And notice that I said investments, not cost or spend. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

Sales Hiring 212

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 212

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.

Scale 130

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 130

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

Part-Time VPE 228

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 228

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. It is staggering.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 159

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

VP of Engineering 75

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 75