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Building a Stellar Engineering Organization

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Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Peter Kazanjy: Most of the literature is really for existing sales leadership or sales professionals, but not for people who have never sold before. So that’s why I ended up writing Founding Sales , and that led into Atrium, and also led into Modern Sales, which is the sales operations, leadership, and enablement community that I run.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

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I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. The other thing is, if you have a person on the team who is very fluent in English, you can have communication happening in the local market, in Spanish and still get the communication back to San Francisco just fine.