SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Lessons from the Best & Worst Deals (00:05:03) To succeed in today’s rapidly changing business landscape, startups need an ultra-committed binary team, especially two co-founders with an insane level of commitment. The Qualities of Great CTOs (00:15:54) To identify great CTOs, it may take interviewing 20 candidates.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. But, one day soon, you’ll marvel at all the things AI sneakily helped pull off your plate. Because when marketing meets AI , magic happens. AI researchers typically take this one step further, though.

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Artificial Intelligence AI Search Machine Learning Marketing 145

SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Black Holes: these are ideas that take up a lot of company effort while offering poor ROI. Full post.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 207

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. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers. Because he is. That took me to the FinTech and then SaaS industry.

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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. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks.

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