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?

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I did some traveling and ended up going to New York City. I’m also technical, so I started my first business doing video production in the events space. Through Mucker, I met my CTO and co-founder, Taylor Bayouth. We’ve been hiring and really growing the team, and we’ll continue to do so. After two years, I left.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He is the chief revenue officer of a company called ADARA, a data cooperative focused on the travel and discretionary spending space, so we’ll dig into that. 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.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Jonathan : Travel. Well I mean more of the hotel business. Jonathan : Hotel business? Vlad : Hotel-ing business, right? Or Uber, the car rental business, right? 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? Vlad : In there.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules. They think about the hours in the office, and they think about the business travel. ”, the kind of foundational ERP systems. Aaron Levie: Exactly.

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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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