BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. I’ve seen what the impact of having good leadership and management can have on me, but also what bad leadership can have on me emotionally, mentally, and my ability to build generational wealth for my family.

New CTO 52

New CTO Part-Time VPE CTO Coach CTO Hire 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

How many CSMs should you hire? On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without. This helps brands manage customer-facing functions in their entirety, from marketing and advertising to research, care, and social engagement. What is their ROI?

Scale 43

Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 165

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 165

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2021

And that means your initial leadership team often takes you faster, and further, than you might ever think. The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team. And that’s great.

Part-Time VPE 239

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 239

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Going above and beyond, being thoughtful and we try to say, how do we infuse Southern hospitality into our brand and make that a differentiator rather than being stressed about the fact that there are some negatives of being where we are. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home.

CTO Hire 161

CTO Hire Travel Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach 161

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Well, let’s transition then to leadership. Excited to be back emceeing.

CTO Coach 129

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 129

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. What is LinkSquares?

Scale 107

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 107

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.

Sales Hiring 246

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale Investment 246

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz: Well I actually started in the world of SaaS back in 2005 so about 14 years ago when I was still at Oracle Corporation and it was right after we’d acquired Siebel Systems and I took on a leadership role for what at the time was known as the CRM on demand team. I came back to North America.

Scale 186

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 186

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

If you have a brand or advertising campaign and you’re working with an external agency, how do you not need to change the workflows that you do internally for that external partnership? And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. Rachel Hepworth: Exactly. Andrew Chen: Exactly.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

But if you really want to build customers for life, this is the time where empathy will shine and doing the right thing long term versus short term is going to make that customer either be a customer for life or not. Is it wanting to control their brand? You don’t have time for that, don’t you just want to be a brand?”

Payment Methods 219

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 219

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. What would your advice be on onboarding those mega?corporates

Technical Advisors 166

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 166

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product.

Sales Hiring 136

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 136

Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And many CEOs simply fail to understand the nuances of the role and the future building benefits of marketing investments made in areas like “brand” where the return on investment is not immediately recognizable on the balance sheet. I’ve played the following roles at various tech companies. What will be delivered, and over what timeline?

Sales Hiring 50

Sales Hiring CTO Coach CTO Hire Underperforming Technical Team 50

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And at that same time I met two Stanford computer science students. .” And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

Sales Recruiting 180

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 180

Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

For some folks it’s mainly a messaging exercise, while others associate it very closely with branding. It’s how you differentiate your brand in the mind. Positioning focuses on the perceptions of the prospect not on the reality of the brand. Positioning focuses on the perceptions of the prospect not on the reality of the brand.

Strategy 128

Strategy Marketing Sales Hiring Engineering 128

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

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? We just stayed the course, but we did and do have a recurrent revenue model, we had predictable revenues, we weren’t maybe hiring as fast as we would have otherwise, but we never had to lay off. We did not.

Scale 154

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 154

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

And so I quickly raised my hand and said this is an awesome opportunity for me to get sales leadership experience, but also get the expat experience, which at that time I looked at as something incredibly valuable for me. So I found myself in London, a one of one employee introducing this new brand to advertising agencies in Europe.

Subscription 106

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Mistake 5) Promoting your culture on your careers page.

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Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

My journey started working with well-known brands such as VISA and TomTom, and since 2014 I started gradually moving to the world of startups and scaleups. Working in-house for known brands is somewhat easier as the messaging and legend are already there (half the job is done!). This can be somewhat one-dimensional over the long term.

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Interviewing Startup Technical Review Technical Advisors 81

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. David: And so you’ve done it differently this time around? You’ve got to think about taxes.

AI Search 143

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 143