SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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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.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. His name is Nate Walkingshaw and he has a book out on product leadership that was recently published, which is an incredible book.

B2B 132

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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? There’s just a lot of work.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Let’s hire an amazing VP of product who’s going to answer this question for us and kind of have the frameworks to do it.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Now scaling the business means different things depending kind of where you are, what you have, but certainly in our case and I think in the majority of cases, it means scaling the team. 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? That is a business model.

Scale 143

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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.

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