SaaStr

MAY 5, 2025

You know what I’m talking about: It’s the VP of Engineering who’s “still evaluating Windsurf and Cursor” but says it’s still a little bit early. The mediocre middle of go-to-market teams is about to be hollowed out, leaving only elite relationship builders and strategic consultants at the top.

AI 277

AI Fractional VPE Scale SaaS 277

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

Part-Time VPE 290

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 290

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. My real point is with the VP of sales you’re probably not going to get the perfect hire. Maybe you’ll get that in your VP of engineering or VP of product, possibly, your VP of marketing.

Sales Hiring 284

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 284

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

How does this differ between SMB and enterprise? Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. This is why you see SMB focused sales organizations like Zenefits, or Yelp, or Yaxed, or what have you.

Part-Time VPE 283

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 283