Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Make every decision based on whether the outcome helps to improve the product, get it to market faster and deliver it for a lower cost. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. It's easy to forget that every new tool adds technical debt that is hard to unwind.

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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. 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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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. 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. Otherwise, we are not doing our jobs, being in the marketing space.

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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

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. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

What does really effective product marketing mean to Paul? Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? It’s faster to get this to market and iterate on it and make it great if we skip over a lot of those controls. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? 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.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. A lot of great experience working and supporting inside sales teams, a lot of good experience with marketing and marketing ops, a lot of good experience with building products. It really lended itself to being this new category, this post signature type of contract product.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

291: Experimental marketing brings together the science and art of marketing, allowing for creativity that drives results. It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role?

Technical Advisors 169

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

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? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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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, let me just share with you what a rogue former marketer as done with a culture and people ops team, and how we approach culture, and how we measure it at HubSpot.

Part-Time CTO 271

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So HubSpot today is like a 25 or 30, I don't know whatever the market cap is. if I'm going to work on brand, I'm in there with the marketing team reviewing copy and going through the. The pass one was in marketing, which is what we ended up doing. So this is Dharmesh.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So HubSpot today is like a 25 or 30, I don't know whatever the market cap is. if I'm going to work on brand, I'm in there with the marketing team reviewing copy and going through the. The pass one was in marketing, which is what we ended up doing. So this is Dharmesh.

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