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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” Brian and Dharmesh started the company out of MIT Sloan, so who did they hire?

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

SaaStr

Instead, what Henry does is focuses the sales team’s time on expanding current enterprise customers. For example, Google and AWS are already ZoomInfo customers, but only certain sub-segments within those businesses – not the entire org. Second, AI is changing how ZoomInfo ranks and prioritizes accounts.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Vishal and I talk about what it’s like to start a company from nothing and how his experience at Backupify and InsightSquared helped inform the process. for more information. What is LinkSquares?

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. The other dimension you need to think about is the product complexity.

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

SaaStr

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? That happens to coincide with obviously some of the biggest challenges around cybersecurity, data compliance and privacy, GDPR, CCPA, who has access to your information? Aaron Levie: So, how do you protect that flow of information?

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. But, even more interestingly, I got to know Sunil a bit informally, and I loved his somewhat skepticism of things in the industry and his founder centric view of things, which aligns with my values.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

So before we dive into how the role of chief information officer has changed. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings: What are you expecting from AWS this year?