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 216

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 216

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Is it realistic?

Scale 122

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 122

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 220

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 220

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. The company was 145 people, 40 of which were engineers. We had been still growing in San Francisco, one extra office in Mendoza, and in scaling our company we were finding that customer service was a really big expense for us.

Engineering 135

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 135