SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

In 2018, she founded Work In Progress, a hub that connects professionals and fosters a coaching culture. Hooi Ling Tan is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Lisa is now a Business Advisor for Asia Pacific and Inspur-Odoo JV Key Account Manager there. Kandy Yeung studied Materials Science and Engineering and got a Ph.D.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Today I’m talking to Eric Muntz, CTO at Mailchimp , to find out what he believes are the most important qualities of a leader, his secret to achieving inbox zero, and the TV show he’s been on twice. And if I could do that and coach baseball… it’d be the jam. The post ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz appeared first on OpenView.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. We have the formidable Claire Hughes Johnson, who is the chief corporate advisor at Stripe.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. Laura Klein: Since the mid ’90s, I’ve done research, I’ve been an engineer, I’ve done user experience design, and now I do product management. What collaboration is and isn’t.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

From advising the UK government on SME growth to mentoring startups and championing waste reduction, Tessa is reshaping how businesses and individuals think about consumption and sustainability. He also co-founded Ignite Research, building and running an advanced hotel search engine.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Matthew started Yesware in 2010 together with his co-founder and CTO Cashman Andrus. The plan was to bootstrap but as demand for engineering talent increased while savings were drying up very quickly, Matthew and Cashman decided to fundraise. You can find more information about his executive coach, Jerry Colonna here.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. Pete was a Google Associate Product Manager for AdSense and launched Google App Engine. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. These were some of the things I learned from Pete.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This time I met up with Allan Leinwand , Slack’s SVP Engineering, to chat about Hamilton , the best part of his job, and the secret to managing Slack messages like a pro. People will ask me what I do, and I say, “I help run engineering teams at Slack. Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz. What’s the best part of your job?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Caught your interest?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wouldn’t it take away from allowing managers to manage and coach — not to mention the monstrous to-do lists of VPs and CEOs? Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director. Sales engineers likely already play a role in enterprise sales processes.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Riedel summarizes: “We will be extending the power of AI to all aspects of loyalty program management with our next generation SaaS platform.

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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. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. I’m not a lawyer, I’m actually an engineer by classical training, and it’s been a fun and interesting ride to work with this community.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). After leading global engineering at Marketo, he was the CEO of Insightera, a real-time targeting and personalization platform powered by ML, which was acquired by Marketo. Speaker, Author, Advisor, and Product Discovery Coach.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

What Lilach is Known For: As a coach who believes in the power of positive thinking, Lilach is known for helping businesses go from zero to 60 through her unique strategies and exercises. What Rand is Known For: Co-founder of Moz, Rand knows all there is to know about search engine optimization (SEO). Handle: @kim_larry.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Not just in engineering and product, but in every level. Engineering always told you it was impossible. That’s not this mistake, but yes, engineering told you it was too hard, it was too complicated. There’s plenty of great engineers at Adobe, so you can launch any product you want if you give yourself even a year.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

Stephen Dick recently joined BetterCloud as its VP of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). We recently sat down with Stephen for an informal chat about his career path, the history and future of DevOps, and his vision for Site Reliability Engineering at BetterCloud. We tackle operations problems from an engineering perspective.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

RevOps is still developing as a function, so people with a lot of different experiences, like moving from engineering to marketing for example, find RevOps to be a great place to put their problem solving skills to work. His company Revenue Grid is all about moving on to the next phase in CRM- Guided Selling and Coaching.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. Karen Peacock: In college, I studied math and computer science and engineering. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Engineering: Scaling Product Delivery , Technical Strategy , Engineering Management (new). Engineering Programs. Engineering Management. From managing your team and stakeholders to engineering work, learn the skills of successful engineering leaders who deliver reliable output. Technical Strategy.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And they may care more about engineering and that sort of thing. Ryan Walsh: Our engineering team is offshore. I do have a part time CTO who actually was the co-founder of ChannelAdvisor, and I’ve worked with for the better part of 20 years is a co-founder and CTO of ChannelAdvisor Aris Buinevicius.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Example of SaaS Chart of Accounts for Marketing Expenses Research & Development (Engineering) There are fewer direct benefits from splitting out your tech team from the rest of the expenses, but I still recommend doing it. First of all, you should compare your current engineering spend and compare it against your forecast.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A typical cryptocurrency project will have a team of developers, economists, investors, and advisors who work together to bring the project to fruition. How can CTO’s help ensure the Success of a Cryptocurrency Project? This will help ensure that the project remains competitive and relevant.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Q: In your career, did you actively seek out coaches, sponsors, and mentors? Gabby: You should always seek out mentors. I would also encourage you as a new executive to have a separate executive coach. Steve Gladis is my executive coach. You should always seek out mentors. It’s great self-learning.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

And you really should have alignment among the founding team, and certainly engineering, and product, and marketing, too, about what those are, before you tell the salespeople, go close more of these. Um, and having that very honest conversation with them like, Hey, there’s no sales engineer coming to save you.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 26, 2018

Engineering, being the largest and oldest function in technology companies, now has a well defined individual contributor and manager career path all the way up to VP Engineering and CTO. Since analysts are being hired so frequently, they need managers who can mentor and coordinate learnings between teams.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Riedel summarizes: “We will be extending the power of AI to all aspects of loyalty program management with our next generation SaaS platform.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. Lauren and Rob shared a range of benchmarks that executive management should consider to accurately assess R&D ROI and resource allocations. . R&D Spend as a % of Revenue Benchmarks.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Since then, he’s risen rapidly through the ranks and has established himself as a true thought leader in the world of quality engineering. Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Were there any mentors that helped you get to where you are today?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the development and release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT. I studied mechanical engineering and went on to work in aerospace as an engineer. Fifteen years ago, it was engineers and they came from electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. Mira: Both.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. The definition of CTO is so broad and that’s what I like about this role! What does it feel like to be a female CTO?

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

It is focused on making collaboration between developers and operations engineers (ops) easier, faster, and safer. Get our Ultimate Guide To Test Automation for a comparison of the most popular, modern software testing tools and test automation engines. Help team members find mentors they can trust.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

A couple weeks into my summer internship at Netscape, I met a guy named Mike McCue who really became my mentor at Netscape. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. If you give me that solution, I will pay for it.”

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Panintelligence

APRIL 3, 2024

For example, a CTO can present the use case for why AI is so important. In fact, according to Forbes Advisor, 42% of Brits are concerned with a dependence on AI and loss of human skills. A nurse may need a simple color-coded app for quick decisions, while a Formula1 engineer needs complex real-time analysis from AI.

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