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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

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Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. Product Development: Make Bold Bets Based on Customer Problems Ramp’s approach to product development focuses on understanding customer problems rather than implementing their suggested solutions.

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Sales and Tech Teams to Drive Customer Success with HashiCorp’s CTO and VP

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Sarah Polan, EMEA Field CTO at HashiCorp, and Louise Fellows, VP NEMEA at HashiCorp, explore the relationship between Field CTO and sales to help you understand why it exists and how you can leverage this relationship when you have a highly technical product. That’s where the CTO comes in. It’s a CTO motion. An SE motion.

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Leadership Learnings: 5 Things I Wish I Could Have Told My 2013 Self With Advisor and Former CTO of Heap Dan Robinson (Pod 663 + Video)

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Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. What Your Job Is (And What It Isn’t) Your Job is to Make the Company Win A CTO may imagine their primary job is to provide technical expertise, lead engineers, and help build the product.

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Developers and Engineers! Here’s everything you CAN’T miss at this year’s Annual.

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Are you a developer coming to SaaStr Annual 2020 but afraid there might be not quite enough content for you? From large scale mainstage sessions to intimate workshops and even a dedicated lounge, we are carving out some of SaaStr Annual just for developers and engineers. The post Developers and Engineers!

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. In 2018, she founded Work In Progress, a hub that connects professionals and fosters a coaching culture. In 2012, she became Assistant VP at JJL Overseas Education in Beijing, soon enough becoming its VP of Global Development.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

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Take a look at just some of the topics and mentors hosting Braindates: Core metrics to track for SAAS with Tarush Aggarwal, Founder & Ceo at 5X Pricing as a growth lever – How, what, why? The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies.

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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

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Elisa Steele is the CEO of Namely and board member of Splunk, Cornerstone OnDemand as well as an advisor to Tile and People.ai. Over the years, Dug has been an advisor to many startups from Mu Dynamics, Olark and Tech Brewery to Trace and Stratos Card. He is also a Techstars mentor and sits on the board of Censys.