SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Especially in this macro environment, investors don’t just want to see top line revenue growth; they want to see that you can achieve that growth with sound business fundamentals. #4. Why did you do the deal?

Management 220

Management CTO Hire New CTO AI 220

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Instead, there’s one continuous streamlined customer-centric journey, leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, Outreach allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. Are they hiring?

Marketplace as a Service 96

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Data 96

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Currently she's Executive in Residence with Reforge and advising other companies.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Seema: You’ve got about three phases in the business model. We were talking to Sean Place, who was the co founder and CTO, and it turned out that they were just giving gift cards to these drivers, but they had no way to authorize the right transaction at the right time for the right amount. It’s us.

Merchant Services 81

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 81

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

And then it was just a matter of, okay, make sure that it works, make sure that it scales, then very important not to forget, make sure that people buy it, that they know how to find you, you know. And then the sale will commence as far as the people and this was, we were multiple millions of dollars of revenue until I took the first call.

Scale 148

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 148

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If everybody’s just doing a little sliver of the work, how do you roll it up into a meaningful business case? I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? And they had no choice because their revenue went to zero. From contract signature to launch.

Payment Methods 196

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

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. Harry : MuleSoft’s revenue has to be Malta’s GDP.

Technical Advisors 160

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 160

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with. Now’s the Time to Revisit Your Pricing. Don’t leave revenue on the table, drive growth by optimizing your pricing. Do you agree?

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years.

Subscription 107

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 107

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right?

Sales Recruiting 148

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 148

Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. But we do know how online businesses work. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people.

Software 75

Software CTO Hire Scale New CTO 75

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.

Sales Hiring 256

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 256

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. The evidence that made it super clear in the end was that we were not closing big deals with technology buyers at scale.

B2B 133

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 133

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. It costs a huge amount of money to provide inference for these models. Adam: Yeah. Adam: Yeah.

AI Search 143

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 143