Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

A technical co-founder or CTO is always a great-to-have at this stage and becomes a must-have as the business scales beyond seed. That being said, there are always exceptions to this rule ;) cargo.one, a marketplace for air freight, is killing it despite operating in an industry with a fairly concentrated supply side (airlines).

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

One, we’ve got first party relationships with a number of enterprises like Marriott, United, American Airlines. We’ve been able to aggregate data from these companies in real time, and then use that to power business results for these types of companies. So what do we do, right? So what did that mean for us?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules. And then obviously, I think there’ll be more remote hiring in this environment. So, that’s effectively what we’re working on.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. It was pretty easy being an SDR for Marc Andreessen because he’d been on the cover of Time magazine. And that was not a success.

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