SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

They’ve invested in all of these other businesses. And now they’re sitting in your conference room at your little company, and telling you, “Hey. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. We all under invest.

Sales Hiring 245

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale Investment 245

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. In a new one, it was tough to keep up.

Technical Advisors 158

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 158

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader. Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company. Sam Taylor: And so, I met Bret.

Scale 173

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 173

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. Our entire company is in Raleigh, our entire development team is in Raleigh, entire product management team is there, I’m there. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

CTO Hire 155

CTO Hire Travel Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach 155

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did Jeff and Sameer assess the culture fit between the 2 companies when deciding whether or not to join forces? How do they distinguish between culture and values? Just to name a few.

Underperforming Technical Team 128

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 128

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So I worked for Jason Lemkin for about six years, half of which was EchoSign and the other half of which was Adobe post acquisition. So I wanted to get the experience of working for a Fortune 500 tech company. New category. So he’s the CTO? And no sales people currently performing in the company?

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 158

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. And I just told him, “Hey I’m starting a company.”

Sales Recruiting 170

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 170