SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Salesforce and Marc Benioff at first said the core market, security identity, was too small of a market. Their multi-million dollar contracts are 30%. #5. The story is super inspiring.

Fractional VPE 223

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 223

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. In this top-rated session Dharmesh Shah, cofounder and CTO of HubSpot, shares how he and his co-founders broke all of the “rules” and ended up creating an entirely new category of marketing software.

Part-Time VPE 227

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 227

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The reason we did this, we took this decision is because of our bet on the market. Like search engine are very intensive in term of CPU versus the memory. So we had to pretty much select a very specific machine, very specific hardware to make sure we have the best performance of the market. Is it realistic?

Scale 124

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 124

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. As a US citizen, it’s very clear to me that many of our best and brightest go into this field.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. The other thing is, if you have a person on the team who is very fluent in English, you can have communication happening in the local market, in Spanish and still get the communication back to San Francisco just fine. They’re the varsity.

Engineering 139

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 139