SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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. If you can talk about the benefits of that and how that grew as you scaled.

Scale 136

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 136

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. Soon after, new teams started building a lot of new features and services, and they assumed full on call responsibilities. The history of on call at Intercom. There were too many people on call at any moment.

Engineering 209

Engineering Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 209

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. New category. So it could be anybody. They don’t have an agenda.

Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 157

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

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CTO Hire 157

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