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

SaaStr

Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. 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.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? He was like, "You should probably hire someone outside of HubSpot for this role, for your growth.".

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? He was like, "You should probably hire someone outside of HubSpot for this role, for your growth.".