SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI? Let’s jump right into the questions.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting AI 278

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Discussed in this Episode: When to hire your first account executives Key traits to look for in early sales hires Structuring compensation for first sales reps Should you ‘hire the buyer’ to be your sales rep? 31:55 Hiring for grit, curiosity & determination. What does Joe look like at that time?

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale VP of Engineering 89

Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. I’m here to report that AI ack made a big contribution to getting me unstuck, moving, and launched, with what feels like enough quality to be credible. Time will tell. I came away from that conversation with my mind blown.

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CTO Hire Artificial Intelligence AI New CTO 40

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The latest one is all AI with a big enterprise / B2B slant and is very good but dense. AI User Adoption Is Literally Unprecedented We know this, but still, the numbers do sort of blow your mind: ChatGPT: 0 to 800MM weekly users in 17 months (vs. Every B2B and SaaS company now competes in a global, AI-enabled market from Day 1.

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AI Search AI CTO Hire ChatGPT 244

How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you have used or heard of the wonders of ChatGPT, you are already aware of the importance of text annotation because it is behind the marvels of ChatGPT as well as other similar types of generative machine learning tools. Hiring an on-premises data annotator is a costly option.

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CTO Hire Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence CTO 40

Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

My last AI post hit the wire 31 days ago, after a week of agonizing over what to focus on, with Something Really Important seeming to land every other day and completely blow up my plans. One of my go-to AI trackers / prototypers is Simon Willison , creator of the Datasette open source project. But … AI’s not like crypto.

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Artificial Intelligence CTO Hire ChatGPT AI Search 8

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2.

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Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks CTO Hire New CTO 120