SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. You can use them the next time you need to convince your manager brand investment makes sense. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. People were already looking for it.

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2023

Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. Register for SaaStr Annual and join 12,500 Cloud and SaaS Founders, VCs, and Execs at SaaStr Annual for three full days of workshops, sessions, and networking — all to help you scale faster.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. PLG is like the Cloud. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

SaaS companies tend to have more Finance headcount than traditional, non-Cloud companies. From speaking with a variety of CFOs and VPs of Finance recently, here’s what we are hearing they are looking for in their FP&A hiring, outside of traditional Finance, math, accounting and reporting skills. SaaS Finance Benchmarks.

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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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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform. Cloud compute spend is another form of technical debt; more on that in a future post). An alternative: the Cloud Container Solutions Cloud Native Maturity Matrix. Containers!

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. The challenge for hired CEOs is for them to understand: it’s not my company in the sense that I founded it, but it is my company to run.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. Byron Deeter is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and is an investor in SaaS and Cloud. He co-authored Bessemer’s iconic cloud computing and state of cloud report. Casey Winters. David Skok.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Harry Stebbings: And before that, Erica had an incredible 16 year tenure with Oracle Corporation where she founded and led numerous teams within the sales organization, including pioneering the company’s cloud business and leading teams for North American and Latin American markets. I came back to North America.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped, because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company. It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow. Turned out it became who I am.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. It’s in the cloud.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. But, we only use that to do growth investments in our existing portfolio.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. 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? Okay, so what were the stages of investment rounds that you took? That got a lot of airplay. Jonathan : Okay. Vlad : Yeah. We did not.

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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. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

And we just have never seen this in the cloud before. But so it was four years, the last time when the cloud was smaller, right? Jason Lemkin: So it’s just inverting that ratio, and I think that means overall, when we talk with other cloud leaders and executives and CEOs today, the answers are more guarded.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Second, cloud-hosted SaaS apps meet “consumerized” technology buyers via a freemium sales models. Brianne Kimmel made the move from marketing through growth to advising and investing. They reported into the COO & CEO.

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was when a new vision formed beyond the physical classroom to what would later become our cloud, where we can teach anyone anywhere the digital technology skills of the future. So we kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve. So, let me walk you through that.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? When is the right time to sell a startup?

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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. You’ve got to think about taxes. There’s just a lot of work. You know, incumbents versus startups.

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