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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. But for Notion’s Manapat, retention of engineers boils down to three main criteria: Company Success.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

At the end of Day 3 of SaaStr Annual 2022, Jason opened up the mic for an AMA. But as time went on, we shared lessons, what best practices were in customer success and revenue retention and all these things are, right. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Setting goals.

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Applications for Reforge’s Spring 2022 Cohort are Now Open

Casey Accidental

Hey everyone, It’s that time of year again – applications for Reforge’s Spring 2022 Cohort are now open. Retention & Engagement. A deep dive on how to understand, measure, and improve retention through activation, engagement, and resurrection. The Spring 2022 Cohort begins the week of March 21.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Thank you all for listening over this past year – we hope you enjoy this episode and we’ll see you in 2022. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. If one of these particularly piques your interest, you can listen to the full episode below. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

This is why we have created and curated a list of 30 top SaaS influencers you must follow in 2022 to receive excellent SaaS advice. Top 30 SaaS Influencers You Need to Follow in 2022. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. Aaron Levie. Dharmesh Shah. Steli Efti. Bottom Line.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

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This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules. And then obviously, I think there’ll be more remote hiring in this environment.