SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. How do they distinguish between culture and values?

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 132

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

I think most companies overcome it because they’re already at 20 million. So I would say that’s a leadership failure for a lot of CEOs, right? QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. New category.

Sales Hiring 165

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 165

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. Our entire company is in Raleigh, our entire development team is in Raleigh, entire product management team is there, I’m there. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

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CTO Hire Travel Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach 161

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. No one, I think,, is fond of showing up one day and being told that they have a new boss if they haven’t been engaged in that process. What works?

Sales Hiring 222

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 222

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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. What’s that going to do to your company? And so if someone builds a relationship with their account manager, and then three months later you go, “Oh, actually, this is your new account manager.-“

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale Investment 246

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin. And I just told him, “Hey I’m starting a company.”

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 180

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You know, earlier today we talked about creating a new category. Welcome Eric.

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 136

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. With an honest assessment of what’s worked in their culture code, what’s changed, and what we all still need to work on. It’s really tough.

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