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. I think different startups will choose different paths here. You know, incumbents versus startups.

AI Search 143

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 143

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.

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Software CTO Hire Scale New CTO 75

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. Experienced VPs with a track record of building successful companies have been hired across multiple functions.

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Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

China Is Playing a Different Game Entirely The Models Youve Barely Heard Of: DeepSeek R1: 93% performance of OpenAI’s o3-mini at fraction of training cost Alibaba Qwen 2.5-Max: As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2%

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AI Search AI CTO Hire ChatGPT 233

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I quickly discovered I wanted to build a startup and go into the tech space. During that time, I learned how to code, what it means to create a website, and what it means to sign up businesses and sell to customers. It’s more of a lifestyle business, so it’s a pretty crowded market. That’s what I needed.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

When you don’t necessarily have a startup there. From contract signature to launch. They own the business model and they were going… whether they were literally going around IT, they were making their own decision. Touching it, playing with it in a way a CIO or CTO might not before? Jason Lemkin: Yeah.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 264

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 209

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise? That’s like who you’re hiring too.

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Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 180

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

Walk us through the basic business model. Brandon Meyers: There’s kind of an evolution of our business, and maybe I can take you guys through that as well. I think the next thing that was really critical was, you cannot discount the need to actually hire locally as well.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 114

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. It’s not an easy business.

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Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 195

ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

The success of The Athletic has so far played a very strong role in bending the narrative of ad-supported media business models to subscription-based models, which are much more aligned with what benefits the end customer." - Eric Stromber, Founder and Managing Partner at Bedrock. And that’s exactly why we care about this.

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Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO Sales Hiring 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves?

Sales Hiring 141

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale CTO Hire 141