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

SaaStr

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. Primarily I’m interested in companies that focus on SaaS , perhaps have some sort of AI angle to that. We were part of the office of the CTO.