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. Often, product roadmaps represent commitments that shouldn’t be kept.

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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?

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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.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

At what scale does that become impossible? In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * Bob Moore: Yeah, if you think about that RJ Metrics journey, what I like to say about RJ is that it took us eight years to build an amazing three year old company.

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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? So number six, thinking you’re getting away with under investing in management, up scaling in HR. Have you gotten zen about it at this scale?

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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. And, that was a product manager? Eric Yuan : Product marketing manager.

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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 tough to dig out after 50.

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