Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. They often superimpose it on the new company they’ve joined. Solving the puzzle.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

So Gartner says 2018, the SaaS market is over $73 billion dollar, it’s growing very, very quickly. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. Who are the new developers? Eyal Manor: So we have a lot to talk about. what are your thoughts?

Cloud 171

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Yep, we did that.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. So, as leaders, you have to start from scratch and hire new people who weren’t trained in horrible ways or hire people who have been around long enough to know that sales are hard and deals can take six months to close. But it wasn’t ok in 2018, and it isn’t ok today.

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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2020

Your investors and others will learn a lot more hearing about sales from your VP of Sales, your CTO co-founder … and not you. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. Note: an update of a classic SaaStr post from 2018. All-hands meetings, board meetings, whenever. Yes, you are the CEO. Like growing faster.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Trusted by top blockchain projects, QuikNode has launched over 3,000 nodes and has been helping advance the blockchain ecosystem since 2018. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. Read more about QuikNode Definitely take a look at QuikNode's blog.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions. That was the question posed to Rachel Hepworth.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope that by the end you have some new ways of thinking about what tools you use yourself, and some of the pitfalls that you might not be aware of. It highlighted all kinds of tools and techniques that would be useful in building a new type of self-sufficient lifestyle. — Robert Stephens (@rstephens) August 9, 2018.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Even outside of the agency that I started in, just like keeping a broad network and talking to people about how they do things, what they learned and sharing your lessons as well which was one of the reasons for why I started my own blog, the newsletter, that was always very, very big for me. And then I also touched on the newsletter itself.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Venture Capital Technical Advisors 59

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Katie Burke : So, I would encourage all of you to start now, thinking about the fact that homogeneity will be as viral at your company as any blog post you ever write.

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