Company Culture Investment New CTO Startup 
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 19, 2018
Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. We invested more heavily in particular types of training in order to build even more muscle in those core technologies, and we built some interesting tooling to support those core technologies. Not every startup is able to handle our throughput or reliability needs.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 3, 2020
403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.
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Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 15, 2018
On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2020
297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Yep, we did that. Kind of solve the problem.
SaaStr
MARCH 3, 2020
And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. So talking about hiring your first VP of Sales is obviously everybody knows the stat about what percentage of startups fail. What percentage of startups ultimately will not make it? Anybody want to share that?
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
They’ve invested in all of these other businesses. And now they’re sitting in your conference room at your little company, and telling you, “Hey. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. We all under invest.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Loving our podcast content?
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