SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this. For example, I referenced hiring a Chief Revenue Officer, Bill.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. While he has worked mostly in iOS and apps, he’s also dabbled in marketing, too — Andy’s had a hand in building almost every part of the Buffer website! ” 12.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. His name is Nate Walkingshaw and he has a book out on product leadership that was recently published, which is an incredible book. That was when we realized we had to go hire some experienced enterprise go-to-market leaders, like Heather Zynczak who runs marketing at Pluralsight. Thanks everybody.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? We were hired into the same role, same start date, competed head to head. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. I met Molly, who was the COO at the time, Molly Graham.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. Ask him about his thoughts on what companies are looking for in a RevOps role or where companies go wrong trying to hire/ build their RevOps function.). Alex Miller , Director of RevOps at Sendoso.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But promotional paths are a-changing, according to a time-series by Spencer Stuart summarized in Harvard Business Review’s “ Finding the Right CEO.” In 2020, that figure dropped by half to 38%. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. .” And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise? Vlad : Well we did have to hire a new CFO. That’s like who you’re hiring too. We did not.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

And so I quickly raised my hand and said this is an awesome opportunity for me to get sales leadership experience, but also get the expat experience, which at that time I looked at as something incredibly valuable for me. I think the next thing that was really critical was, you cannot discount the need to actually hire locally as well.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He is number 88 on The Midas List: Top Tech Investors 2020. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. He posts regularly on social media on SaaS vision, leadership, and product. He has co-authored a book with his co-founder Dharmesh Shah on inbound marketing. Byron Deeter. Dharmesh Shah.

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