SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? 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. Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. We invest mainly in the growth stage, so think series B, series C, but also somethings earlier as well as some later stage buyouts.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

When we benchmarked ourself, when we started this company, we didn’t say we wanted to be the biggest company in Raleigh. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Do you create broader richer data sets and sell those back to companies for benchmarking purposes? And the third piece is we’re really anxious to disrupt an age-old industry that has sales compensation, benchmarking and analytics, which generally speaking is a year old. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. Since each Midjourney prompt creates new, unique imagery, it eliminates an entire manual step in the workflow—the need to search around for where else a stock image might have been (over-)used. When the rules of the game change. Kenzo: What game?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. In the good sense, like go and build the kind of organization and process that made them successful in the past, but you need to hire that kind of person when you’re willing to make a big investment and a big change in that area. What is good?

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

MosaicML MPT-30B and MPT-7B Models First off—it wasn’t the MPT-7B model that was the news over the past week, it was MPT-30B , announced June 22nd. This chart from MosaicML compares the two models’ capabilities: MPT-30B isn’t benchmarked completely on the LMSYS leaderboard , but 7B is there and competitive.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. What benchmarks should startups bake into the agreements? * How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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