TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? Fulfillment?

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

They hire a VP of Sales who doesn’t want to sell or learn the product. You also don’t want to hire a VP of Sales who won’t carry a bag. If you joined a startup at $2M and wanted to get to $6M with reps doing $400k, that VP of Sales would need to hire ten reps. Software is better, and AI makes it more so. Or why you lose?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We’ve been in this uncertain time but should be coming out of it. How is ZoomInfo Integrating More Advanced AI? At ZoomInfo, they’re integrating more AI for personalization and prioritization. Before AI, you would come into ZoomInfo and be asked a litany of setup questions like: What are the right accounts?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. David George: Sure.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Short on time? Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. You can do amazing things.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Now, it’s time for AI.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. If technology is essential to the company’s viability (when is it not in today’s world?),

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10].

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Although the specifics vary by the product or vendor, a digital experience platform is a single digital hub that allows a brand to use data and AI to create and deploy custom content experiences for consumers and integrate them for consumption across an array of digital and other ecosystems. What Is a Digital Experience Platform?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. So let’s build on that a little bit more and talk a little bit more specifically about technology.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product.

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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. With words!

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Traditionally, a data annotation specialist is hired to perform this task manually, but numerous automated processes have also been developed to perform this activity through AI applications. Sentiment analysis – The sentiment analysis component is also referred to as the opinion mining process in NLP technology.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. For me, when I’m assessing good hires, I look for some key things that I think can survive any of those things. Some of the emerging technologies or trends that I’m really interested in right now are machine learning and AI.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages. 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. We were part of the office of the CTO. Success without College [2:46].

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

It felt like the rate of change in the generative AI space is picking up yet again this week. They are more than capable of training an LLM but given their track record in other segments they probably want to wait for the technology to become more “polished” and give less hallucinated answers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. It’s disruptive.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 14, 2022

As the numbers of tech-based companies grow in number, there is a crucial point to note – Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is also growing. They are looking at AI to handle certain operations within the organization. For most of these companies, AI is a part of their core. Are Organizations Already Hiring CAIO?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

There is a big set of trends happening right now, which is with the downturn and I tweeted this a while back like at the beginning of the downturn that like every customer is scrutinizing, do they really need this technology or not? It’s not just about it being cool, it’s about what Jay said, is it delivering value, right?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture. Brad Feld is an active investor in the leading technology and software space. Alex Turnbull. Brian Halligan. Chris Orlob.

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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. But during major platform shifts, like the current shift to AI, many companies have to rapidly shift product direction. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

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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. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The platform leverages advanced AI in a way that fundamentally changes how sales teams operate. It’s not about bolting on AI as an afterthought; Operator was built from the ground up with AI as its core, designed to deeply understand the user and their target market. Generate robust account plans in a few seconds.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. During his time at the company, they raised over $108m from Lightspeed, ICONIQ, Kleiner, Sapphire, and Bain Capital. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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. Yashar Behzadi, CEO & Founder @ Synthesis AI. Karim Atiyeh, CTO & Co-Founder @ Ramp.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. Justin Bedecarre: And it’s a really inspirational thing to add technology and innovation to the workplace, how you find space, how you manage space, and build the office of the future. Jason Lemkin: But long.

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Go Hire- Saas

JULY 24, 2025

The current enterprise AI wave is more chaotic than transformative, and the cracks are showing. CEOs are making AI mandates, CISOs are concerned, and the workforce is scared of AI. AI Implementations Should NOT be run like Top-Down IT Software Installs Too many leaders are approaching AI like a traditional IT rollout.

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Stax

APRIL 16, 2025

Stax CTO, Mark Sundt , recently sat down with John Gaffney from PYMNTS for an eye-opening conversation about the exciting future of AI and how it’s poised to revolutionize the business world. Imagine having AI that can adapt and expand its capabilities on the fly, without needing a bunch of specialized apps.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. So 2013 was sort of this era.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

38:33 The commoditization of technology in the age of AI. You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO. Engineering likes to talk about technology, new technologies and impact. So a good example I had was I remember trying to explain to the CTO that [00:21:00] we needed like a process.

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