SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? ” And there can be some truth to that, right? .”

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. Before Kubernetes, DevOps teams were confined to assembling their own container orchestration and management solutions.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Remove infrastructure bottlenecks: you do this by ensuring that your infrastructure configuration and management doesn't become a bottleneck to developer productivity. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. Which tool will you choose for configuration management?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. Third, my second start-up as a founder — once we had a great management team. Second, hire the best management team you can as early as you can.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Until now, Intercom has been a multitenant application hosted in a single region in AWS. We identified some “ known unknowns” too; problems we needed to solve, but didn’t know how just yet – like integrating the new region into our billing system. And so our former CTO and co-founder Ciaran Lee decided we were just going to start.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

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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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. I never managed to convince them.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Prior to founding Balsa, Paul was Senior Director of Product @ Slack and before Slack was a Group Product Manager @ Twitter where he was responsible for the home timeline, including timeline ranking. How does Paul think about driving really effective change management? Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes?

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Because that (abandonment) wouldn’t be a solid foundation to acquire more new users.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Prior to founding LinkSquares, he held positions in operations and product management at Backupify and InsightSquared. So a lot of my management team, including my co-founder, we all worked together at a company in Boston, Backupify. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For us, the thing that’s always mattered has been: How much money is each investing partner managing? What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner? One person, 50.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. Change management is super hard for companies that are growing really quickly. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role?

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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. So, I went up the traditional IT clerk/management career path from developer to manager to senior manager.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

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. We’re already in this like a new gen.” So, you have to intentionally manage through this, which is really important.

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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. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” So, at HubSpot, we are allergic to micro-management.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So my agreement with Brian was I'm not going to have any management responsibilities in this company. I'm going to be in it a hundred percent, but I'm not a good manager. If I spent a bunch of time, I could probably with some coaching get passably okay at management.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So my agreement with Brian was I'm not going to have any management responsibilities in this company. I'm going to be in it a hundred percent, but I'm not a good manager. If I spent a bunch of time, I could probably with some coaching get passably okay at management.

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