Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team. That’s why we embedded Intercom’s InfoSec team within the R&D org and why it reports directly to the CTO, meaning that we are closer to this risk while retaining company-wide visibility and impact. . Shipping quickly and securely. Continuous risk management.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

2021 SaaStrAnnual.com Sep 27-29 in San Mateo / SF Bay Area!! Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Hector Angulo, VP, Product @ Hired.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

Is the CTO involved in these decisions? App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. In 2021, anyone growing decently was funded. But what is happening is maybe 10-20% of folks are growing at 2021 rates or faster, and they’re being flooded with capital. Is SaaS dead right now?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Another busy week for speaking confirms for 2021 SaaStrAnnual.com!! Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired. Amy Pisano, CRO @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. 5 Sebastian Schaeffer, CTO at dofollow.io (B2B PR SaaS) says: “ Our community is primarily on Facebook and Linkedin and it has been live for over a year. But mostly our members help each other, and it works like a charm.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Then things got worse in 2021 because everything was easier.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Phishing attacks are still the most common causes of data breaches in 2021. As I said, phishing attacks are still 90% of data breaches in 2021. So we’re hiring across the board, all departments. Caught your interest? The LinkedIn Incident.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Athletic 's strategy for the past three years has been to hire top-talent journalists in the sports space, getting people to pay for high-quality journalistic content. Brendan Schwartz , Co-Founder and CTO over at Wistia, has spent a lot of time learning to trust his instincts. And this is truly a genius idea.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2021

. — Elkanah Carnell Reed (@ElkanahReed) April 6, 2021. The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team. That CTO that doesn’t quite have the traditional background.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 11, 2020

We were days away from signing a big contract with an AV vendor to rehab the cafe space that we had to put on pause. Ultimately, I want computers to do more of our jobs for us so that my team has more time for meaningful work that requires human thought. How about from your team’s perspective? Have a story you’d like to share with us?

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

78% of women in tech report feeling like they must work harder than male coworkers to prove themselves [Source: Trustradius , 2021]. This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Again…Why?

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

In the run-up to 2021 SaaStr Annual, we’re looking back at some of the top all-time sessions. But don’t just take our word for it — watch the full session below: And in case you haven’t heard, we’re building a completely immersive experience, 100% outdoor and open-air experience for SaaStr Annual 2021!

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29 , we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ). ” We didn’t do any annual contracts. Hubspot today is a $23B juggernaut. A SaaStr Classic!!

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. I do my own reference calls.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

365: The Office of the Future, How Everything’s Changed and What 2021 Will be Like with Justin Bedecarre, CEO @ HelloOffice and Jen Nguyen, Founding Partner @ TEAMWERC. We have Slack saying, “Hey, we’re not going to consider going back into the office until 2021.” Aaron Levie: Exactly. Jason Lemkin: Yeah.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

If you’re the CEO and not deeply technical, having a CTO or fractional CTO that can understand emerging AI and then translate that raw material into “most potentially impactful for us” is a great option, and can flow smoothly to the next point. Stay up on what’s emerging.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Which role should you hire for first? And if you haven’t heard: SaaStr Annual will be back in 2021 , bigger and better than ever! Get best price tickets here!!!

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

Also, be aware VCs are a lot more sensitive to early and unusual founder secondary liquidity than they were in the Go-Go Days of 2021. Don’t force VCs to find out in due diligence that only 2 percent of the pool, not the customary 15 percent or so, is available for new hires. If you want to do this, disclose it up front and discuss it.

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