SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So we cracked open a basic programming book and we started learning how to write our first lines of software together. His name is Nate Walkingshaw and he has a book out on product leadership that was recently published, which is an incredible book. That was the start of an entire journey for me. Where’s the skills gap?

B2B 132

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 132

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. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

Part-Time VPE 209

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 209

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. There’s knowledge that people have in their heads that is not on the internet and is not in any book.

AI Search 138

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 138

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

When I was a couple of years into my tenure at Oracle, I moved down to Latin America to Argentina, sight unseen actually, and built out a telesales group in Argentina and then later in Miami, hiring about 100 people from 11 different countries and that early building experience really whet my appetite. I came back to North America.

Scale 160

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 160

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? 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. And how do you contract to that?

CTO Hire 132

CTO Hire compliance Scale Startup 132

Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. She is very engaged in sharing fellow RevOp leaders posts and advice so you know you’ll be in the loop. Ask Jordan about what most organizations miss when they undertake a Sales Engagement initiative.).

Scale 100

Scale Technical Cofounder Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 100

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly [16:07]. Chris was actually the first sales hire at Snowflake. They are now well past $100 million in ARR and one of the most successful enterprise technology businesses to come out of Silicon Valley and, in fact, out of the US in a long, long time. Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly.

Scale 65

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 65

Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Below we'll cover what positioning in marketing is, why you should RTFM of April Dunford's book and give you 10 positioning examples and a couple of links to templates. Skip this blog post and just read the book You know those books which could be shortened down to 1 page of bullet points? This is not one of them.

Strategy 128

Strategy Marketing Sales Hiring Engineering 128

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time. Our second sponsor is Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform. Sales enablement is easy. The result? More sales meetings.

Subscription 106

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Jonathan : As opposed to you have X number of customers who have bookings that indicate future growth. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise? Jonathan : Oh wow. We did not.

Scale 139

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 139

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Really excited for engaging discussion on something I’m passionate about, the future of the customer. Our challenge and our opportunity in customer engagement is staying tightly aligned with the business drivers, having the discipline to manage long term customer journey even when the short term options might be easier.

Payment Methods 188

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 188

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Balancing internal growth with hiring.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Harry Stebbings: So given the centrality of that role there and the ever increasing prominence of it, I guess my next question is for operators listening, when is the right time to hire that first CIO?

Technical Advisors 153

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 153