SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Elisa Steele is the CEO of Namely and board member of Splunk, Cornerstone OnDemand as well as an advisor to Tile and People.ai. He is also a Techstars mentor and sits on the board of Censys. Dug Song Duo Security Co-Founder/CEO, Cisco GM.

CTO Coach 27

CTO Coach New CTO CTO Web Development 27

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? And during my time there, one of my close friends and mentors, his name is Steve Carpenter, gave me a nudge and said, “Hey man, when are you leaving?” Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

Scale 171

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 171

SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

Latin America has interesting characteristics that make it a viable place for investment, including a high level of internet penetration and social engagement. There is a shift towards less capital-intensive startups with recurring revenues, and due diligence is crucial before taking on investors or advisors. Web Summit Rio, day 3.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review VP of Engineering Development Team Review Software Review 90

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Get DevOps tools to automate functional testing DevOps without automated software testing is like racing a Ferrari with the handbrake engaged. Help team members find mentors they can trust. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

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. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

It may not reflect immediately on top line figures, but their follow through moves the needle on other metrics — productivity, discovery of new tools or techniques, and sharpened selling skills — any one of which will eventually translate to higher performance and attained goals. The stingy gatekeeper won’t let me talk to the CTO.

Underperforming Technical Team 86

Underperforming Technical Team Sales CTO Coach New CTO 86

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 30, 2023

Then he became CTO at Bezos Academy, a non-profit organization founded by Jeff Bezos. In order to grow his business , it was necessary to continually engage with followers on LinkedIn and Twitter, but Dave found it difficult to allocate time for this task on a daily basis. I use the Calendar view, and create a new post.

Social Media 18

Social Media CTO Coach CTO Hire New CTO 18

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You’re probably going to maybe give them some shares in an advisor. People that can, not just from a numbers standpoint, but from a culture and mentoring standpoint. 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 158

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 158

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

All you’ve got to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time, okay? Our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. Sales enablement is easy. The result?

Scale 71

Scale Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Consulting 71

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. Rob May being the founder and CEO of the company, and a great mentor for me. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

Scale 107

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 107

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will the structure of orgs change around them?

CTO Coach 168

CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire Software Review 168

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Thanks to their extensive experience coaching and interacting with customers, CS teams have an exclusive perspective as they are on the frontlines of the customer-company relationship. The hot topic that is running around in the SaaS industry is the need for customer success to have a seat and a voice at the leadership table.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Part-Time CTO CTO Scale 10

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. Do you think that’s a luxury that maybe only larger companies with more elastic budgets should engage with, advice wise? So why were you so engaged for so long?

Sales Hiring 213

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 213

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money. Second sponsor Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. I spend probably three to four hours a day, personally recruiting users and engaging with users.

Marketplace as a Service 94

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 94

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. Because that (abandonment) wouldn’t be a solid foundation to acquire more new users.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Ad tech and our B2C peers have been able to precisely profile and engage consumers for years. This is not new.

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. And that kind of sets the incentives and kind of you can’t get a new co-founder or a team member multiple of those to your business.

Outsourcing Services 106

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Technical Review 106

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time. So it’s a great show. Sales enablement is easy.

Subscription 106

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. Chorus records, transcribes, and analyzes business conversations in real time to coach reps on how to become top performers. The first is Chorus.ai.

Sales Hiring 68

Sales Hiring Revenue CTO Coach CTO Hire 68

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. We were part of the office of the CTO.

Payment Methods 55

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

Technical Advisors 157

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 157

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side.

Technical Advisors 165

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 165

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

And my retort was, for the first year, basically, well they’re the team that’s got my here so I’m going to stick with it, which I did for a year and then we kind of started turning around a little bit and saying, look, yeah, but are we growing as fast as we could be given the new reality of the ground? Vlad: So what’s the new reality?

Scale 143

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 143

Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

Scale 99

Scale Technical Cofounder Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 99

Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Marketing Consultant As a marketing consultant , I’ve played roles ranging from strategic advisor to independent contributor to interim head of marketing. From the perspective of the consultant, the success of most consulting engagements hinges on clear expectation setting from the get-go. Look for a new team.

Sales Hiring 50

Sales Hiring CTO Coach CTO Hire Underperforming Technical Team 50

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Our second sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. Go to vidyard.com/saleshacker for more information.

Scale 43

Scale CTO Coach Cloud New CTO 43

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. Or, my favorite, I’m new, this is my first time. jason Lemkin : I think 50 is the new, the new number for me. Who actually knows stuff and does things?”

Part-Time CTO 262

Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 262

Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

Our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. Outreach revolutionizes customer engagement by moving away from solid conversations to a streamlined and customer centric journey. The thought was, if I’m in New York, my client’s in Chicago, LA? I am a New Jersey-ian by birth.

Outsourcing Services 72

Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Technical Review 72