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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

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

SaaStr

This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting. 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.

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

Sales Hacker

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.