Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Microsoft has secured its leadership position. The leadership must declare clearly their goals, their team, & their plan for the next few years because OpenAI has confused the market & the employee base with its fast-action, strategic direction changes, & lack of clarity. Where does that put the ecosystem now? in run-rate.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Amazon just announced this week that its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos “will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and … The post 16 Minutes #54: Beyond Bezos — Amazon, Cloud, and CEO Transitions appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

as a common language to analyze a cloud business. The shift to using SaaS metrics as a common language led to a common definition of what a great cloud business should look like. These two drivers influence varying metrics in different ways that don’t necessarily negatively impact cloud business outcomes.

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IT World

MARCH 28, 2023

Then after a federal anti-trust suit and CEO Steve Ballmer’s poor leadership, the company fell into a tailspin and lost its tech luster during a “lost decade” that began in 2000. When Satya Nadella took over as CEO from Ballmer in 2014, Microsoft began a slow, steady ascent, betting on the cloud rather than relying on Windows.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to the latest installment of our “ What’s New ” series where SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin sits down with some of the top leaders and founders in SaaS and Cloud to discuss What’s New and what should be top of mind for fellow founders. There are usually 10-12 segments, so it’s a great alignment exercise with leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 14, 2022

I am delighted to share that our senior leadership team here at Intercom continues to grow. He’s also served in leadership roles at Mulesoft, Salesforce, Accenture, and Booz Allen. Declan is joining us from Google where he was Director, Cloud Technical Support for EMEA. Welcome Declan Ivory, VP of Customer Support.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

Dan talks about the key qualities of great sales leadership and how to be an effective executive in addition to being a great sales leader. Building a Repeatable Leadership System [19:04]. Dan’s got over 20 years of sales experience, and specifically has insights on sales and leadership. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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IT World

MAY 19, 2023

To do that, IT leaders must architect IT infrastructure that enables cloud-like agility and speed across diverse environments. The pace of technological change is lightning-fast. Savvy CIOs navigate this by learning, deciding and taking action with incredible agility and speed. But they can’t go it alone.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this? A few more.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It was the start of the wave of the cloud. There are two moments in my career that I remember.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

CPO, EVP – Creative Cloud. What’s Changed Since March 15 The Cloud at Hyperspeed. The Future of Cloud: Navigating through Uncharted Territory. The Future of Cloud: Navigating through Uncharted Territory. Juggling People, Processes & Priorities: CTO Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines. Scott Belsky.

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Cloud has never been bigger. Be sure you hire passionate, talented leadership to help ease your burden. He advises that founders stick with their company long-term as it grows without jumping ship to start other ventures. I don’t think founders fully internalize the power of that, the tailwinds, the boost it gives you.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

She was Google’s Chief People Officer and a member of Google’s executive leadership team for 4.5 years before retiring last year. I’m excited to join Intercom’s board of directors and work directly with Karen and the executive team.” ” Eileen Naughton.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In any case, as companies evolve, so must the leaders — but can the same person transition … The post a16z Podcast: On Fear and Leadership — Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. or pioneer to settler.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We’re so many years into the Cloud, and here we are at hundreds of billions in annual Cloud spend and growing at 6x over eight years. You won’t have integrations, and generally, it’s more expensive and a huge distraction to the leadership team. What Caused This Crowded Software Market? That’s unbelievable!

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2022

Podium sales leaders, EVP of Sales Than Hancock, and Regional Sales Manager Carlie Adams recently led a session on how they’ve grown the team at the cloud-based software company. In the same way, the focus of sales leadership will become more tantamount as organizations grow. Principle #4: At Scale, Focus is Critical.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. I thought CRM, in the cloud, et cetera, was never going to be anything. Do you not think that actually we’ve just transferred to cloud lock-in versus on-prem lock-in? So what do I know right? vendors right?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

leadership #womenintech #SaaStrScale [link] pic.twitter.com/JMuRqVP3ae. Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. " Save your seat today! — Rolf Heimes (@rolfester) November 13, 2020. Our next big digital mega-event SaaStr Scale is coming up soon, Dec 8-9!! Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 4, 2020

He brings extensive financial and leadership experience that will help Intercom continue to scale and deliver on our mission to make internet business personal. As Sitecore’s CFO, he played a critical role in its transformation from a perpetual license business to a subscription-based cloud software business.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

To help you with your search, we’ve compiled a list of sales leadership opportunities from around our community to help connect leading startups with the best candidates. . InEvent , a virtual and hybrid events platform, is looking for a VP of Sales to bring their cloud-based products to the emergent hybrid event market.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2023

So, whether you’re hiring or you’re selling or you’re running a leadership meeting, a lot of the time you’re banking on your natural skills and experience to get you to a good result so you can move on to the next thing. These are bedrock leadership principles at Clari that we instill throughout the company. It’s called winging it.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Former Google Cloud and Salesforce leader Sanj Bhayro has joined the company as VP, EMEA Sales. She has more than 20 years of marketing leadership experience and was previously the CMO of Smartsheet, where she helped grow the company to $500M ARR. We are also adding former Marketo CFO Fred Ball to our Board of Directors.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Adam Blitzer, EVP & GM, Marketing Cloud Salesforce and former VP, Marketing @ Pardot, shares insights from launching a company in the already crowded marketing automation space and zig-zagged the way to market leadership. How do you compete in a tough marketplace with thousands of other competitors?

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Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Albert Yirenchi : As the Chief Information Security Officer at Moniepoint, a cutting-edge fintech company that processes over $12Bn in transactional value monthly, Albert is responsible for shaping and executing their information security strategy to safeguard their cloud-based infrastructure and sensitive financial data.

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Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Albert Yirenchi : As the Chief Information Security Officer at Moniepoint, a cutting-edge fintech company that processes over $12Bn in transactional value monthly, Albert is responsible for shaping and executing their information security strategy to safeguard their cloud-based infrastructure and sensitive financial data.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). Big tech takes over. .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2020

— State of the Cloud 2020 with Bessemer Venture Partners. — Juggling People, Processes, and Priorities: Leadership Lessons from Intuit, SurveyMonkey & Stitch Fix. — What Being a Founder Taught Me About Leadership – Lessons from GitHub’s COO. Mar 11, 3:45pm – 4:25pm.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 9, 2020

How has he seen the rate of enterprise cloud adoption change over the last five years? The post SaaStr Podcast: BetterCloud’s CEO Talks Scalability, Radical Transparency, and Enterprise Cloud Adoption appeared first on BetterCloud Monitor. People often suggest operators are suited to certain stages of a company lifecycle.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Before founding BetterCloud, David was an early employee of Cloud Sherpas (acquired by Accenture), where he led the company to become the leading cloud services partner to SMB worldwide. How has David seen the rate of cloud adoption within enterprise over the last 5 years? Has it been faster or slower than he thought?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

Our leadership team is fully engaged in the active management of our response during this challenging period. AWS is the leading cloud provider in the industry, and we leverage their portfolio of globally redundant services to ensure Intercom runs reliably. Business continuity.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-founder of Box, discusses the approaches he used for scaling his company in terms of hybrid work, adjusting to a dynamic economy during the pandemic, and the importance of the Cloud and digital technology for every business. Box has always lived in the Cloud, anti-on-prem. About the podcast.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 2, 2024

Buyers may also struggle to justify investments in new purchases and to convince their leadership team of the worth. Examples include buying software licenses, purchasing materials, or investing in technology solutions like cloud services. Hard Cost This refers to money spent outside the company on materials, software, technology, etc.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 10, 2021

APPEALIE announced the twelve winners of the 2020 SaaS Leader Awards, a software leadership award honoring the top Marketing and Customer Success executives in the industry. . “The glowing nominations our 2020 honorees received reflect the high standard of excellence in SaaS today.”

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2019

Dave Kellogg has a lengthy history in tech from his start in product marketing at Ingres Corp in 1985 to his ensuing leadership positions at Versant and Business Objects. He then stepped in as SVP of Service Cloud for Salesforce and went on to become CEO of Host Analytics from 2012-2018.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It includes leadership development courses, and responsibilities of managing and hiring one or two reps to get experience. . Pothole #4 – Promoting Your Best Salesperson to Manager. It’s a common occurrence in SaaS –– the highest-performing sales rep gets promoted to manage a team.

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Kellblog

MARCH 19, 2021

My interest in product stems from my overall fascination with strategy and my experience in product marketing at Ingres (RDBMS), CMO at Versant (ODBMS) and Business Objects (BI/analytics), SVP/GM at Salesforce.com (Service Cloud), and CEO at MarkLogic (NoSQL) and Host Analytics (Planning).

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Scytale

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ricardo has architected innovative and successful incident management, risk management, application security programs, data protection policies and cloud security vendor assessment and frameworks. Leadership Abilities A CISO must be a strong leader who can gain buy-in across the organization.

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