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Quality of Life: What Does It Mean For A Start-Up?

SaaStr

Recently, I spent several hours with a new but great friend who has been on a vaguely similar journey to me. In many ways, your Quality of Life will simply be awful. In my first start-up as a founder, I had a great CTO and VPE and a pretty darn good VP Ops from the very beginning. 20×7, near as I can tell.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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

Sales Hacker

Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. It really lended itself to being this new category, this post signature type of contract product. And talking about folks, about contract management software, we’re like, it’s not a new category. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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

SaaStr

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. Most recently, Yousuf was the CIO and VP of Customer Success at Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise, providing automatic resolution of IT issues.