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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. I’m sure you did a lot of diligence in trying to figure out whether that person would succeed. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing.

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OPEXEngine SaaS Conversations Recap

OPEXEngine

Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. Lauren and Rob shared a range of benchmarks that executive management should consider to accurately assess R&D ROI and resource allocations. . Financial KPIs.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. And where you were spot on is that this is not a review site. Do you create broader richer data sets and sell those back to companies for benchmarking purposes? What Ryan has learned about how salespeople are performing [10:51]. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right). Nudging Customers with Behavioral Tactics.

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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights

Crafty CTO

Sharma shows us some significant new capabilities arriving in Copilot, and with her team presents a couple different agentic app solutions. His “draw a pelican riding a bicycle” LLM benchmark is both hilarious and an uncannily accurate LLM quality assessment.

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Top 11 PLG Experts You Must Follow on Social Media in 2022

Frontegg

PLG is taking center stage across all SaaS domains due to the benefits it brings to the table. Under his supervision, HubSpot has become a true industry benchmark. Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo).

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The Emergence

Crafty CTO

.” Here’s a summary from phind.com , a ChatGPT-backed web search similar to (but better than, in my opinion) Bing Chat: In the Expanse series, “the churn” is a term used to describe the cycle of chaos, change, and upheaval that the characters face due to various factors such as political, social, or criminal turmoil.