Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In a Quora thread , Ian McAllister, Director of Airbnb and former GM of Amazon describes the process: “ For new initiatives a product manager typically starts by writing an internal press release announcing the finished product. Today this mentality is hardwired into the company. Focus on the Things that Don’t Change.

AWS 189

AWS New CTO Scale CTO 189

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale?

Cloud 168

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 168

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. If we take them one by one, what were your biggest lessons from scaling the team at Dropbox?

Scale 173

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 173

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I don’t we can communicate that. Basically, he had seen something at scale, but he hadn’t gone through that sort of growth phase where you don’t have everything at the tip of your finger. For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. What’s your ACV today?

Scale 136

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 136

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

Outsourcing Services 192

Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

How does this requirement change as the company scales? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl think about doing this at scale? How do they assess and test for culture? * How does Karl think about retaining agility and flexibility with scale?

Sales Hiring 217

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 217

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. This is how you need to grow with the company. So it could be anybody.

Sales Hiring 155

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 155