SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

The B2B SaaS arms race will be won by those who can consistently translate technical debt into development versatility: adding new features, integrating new data sources and workflow integrations, trying new technologies, retiring locked-in dependencies. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). Containers!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. And one of the areas I work in is AWS cost management, and snacking there is so easy.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Sarah Kim, CTO at GrowthCraft, highlighted the cost efficiency: “As our system grew to hundreds of services, our previous monitoring solution became prohibitively expensive. He is passionate about bridging the gap between technology and human-centered selling. Uptrace offers all the features we need at a fraction of the cost.”

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. Reshef Mann , CTO and Co-founder of AppsFlyer: “As a CTO, I strive to focus my R&D resources on developing our own core product while not compromising on the features that make our SaaS offering shine.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. We made some smart bets on technology. That technology doesn’t exist yet, but it needs to.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’re interviewing Chris Degnan, who is the Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing. They are now well past $100 million in ARR and one of the most successful enterprise technology businesses to come out of Silicon Valley and, in fact, out of the US in a long, long time. Now, we have to thank our sponsors.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But I always believe that at the core, I always believe that this problem could be solved through that application technology. And I still don’t believe that there’s technology that can solve this problem of knowing what I’ve agreed to in contracts I’ve already executed. I was bullish on that from day one.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Rationalise your tech stack: reign in your teams' propensity to collect the latest and greatest tools and ask them to decide on those components of their technology stack that are absolutely critical to delivering measurable business outcomes. Naturally, your first choice is likely to be between choosing between AWS DevOps or Azure Devops.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

Before I commit heavily to a particular technology or platform, I like to survey of the state of the art in that particular niche. All of this deploys gracefully onto modern AWS infrastructure, and the result is capable of supporting tens of thousands of web and mobile users.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The Infrastructure Math Is Unprecedented The Capital Intensity Is Off The Charts: Big Six tech CapEx: $212B annually (63% YoY growth) Microsoft AI business: $13B run-rate (175% YoY growth) NVIDIA data center revenue: $39B quarterly (78% YoY growth) Amazon AWS CapEx as % of revenue: 49% (vs.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? Fyle runs on AWS. Only the CTO has admin access. Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. There is a problem if you and your business are still relying on paper trails and old-school bookkeeping to manage your expenses.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I think the key thing that I had realized after several years in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, it really centers on the fact that a lot of the technology that I was seeing was really, a lot of the innovation was happening in the Bay area. Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. Justin Bedecarre: And it’s a really inspirational thing to add technology and innovation to the workplace, how you find space, how you manage space, and build the office of the future.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. So this is Dharmesh. Dharmesh is the. You're the co-founder of HubSpot.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. So this is Dharmesh. Dharmesh is the. You're the co-founder of HubSpot.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

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. So, I’m Chief Technology Officer, and years ago I was volunteered by my co-founder to work on culture. Jason Lemkin: Yes.

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