SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

These 18 women are powerful, relentless and are all making SaaS and tech in general a better place. They have impressive professional achievements, all the way from founding companies through to running international operations across continents all the way to funding the SaaS companies of the future. They are stars in tech in Asia.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Founded by Sanjit Biswas, former CEO at Meraki and John Bicket former CTO at Meraki[link] Samsara builds software to manage physical operations: truck fleets, mining, food & beverage, oil & gas. 71% is the public SaaS company median. Incidentally, the name Samsara is the cycle of life and death in Sanskrit.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Viviana Faga, Investor & Advisor @ Coda. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Nicole Culver, Director of Product Marketing, SaaS @ Bandwidth. Ariel Cohen, CEO @ TripActions. Aaron Levie, CEO @ Box.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2021

What makes a bad CTO? What is the next big trend in SaaS (software as a service)? What will SaaS companies look like in the future? How much equity should I give my startup advisor? As a CTO in a startup, what should I do when the CEO wants to interfere with making technical decisions? What should I do?

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2023

And we’ll have a ton more Braindates and Workshops still to come last minute to sign-up for!

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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. Read more interviews with the most innovative people in SaaS.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

There is nothing better than absorbing knowledge from leading SaaS professionals when it comes to Product-Led Growth (PLG). PLG is taking center stage across all SaaS domains due to the benefits it brings to the table. With over a decade of SaaS expertise (4 in PLG), she founded Product-Led Growth Hub , the world’s first PLG academy.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The main benefits of categorizing your SaaS company’s expenses are more accurate metrics and forecasts, and getting a better understanding of your company’s overall spending. Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 This is a v2.0 New Gross Margins?

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Our August SaaS conversation focused on high performance in R&D, with OPEXEngine CEO and Founder Lauren Kelley hosting Bain Expert Partner Rob Levy for an energizing discussion on this critical topic. Top R&D KPIs Every SaaS Company Should Track & Benchmark. Top R&D KPIs Every SaaS Company Should Track & Benchmark.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

On everything on how to get more leads, do ABM right, work with mentors, build a world-class CS team, and so much more. We’re super excited to have partnered with Women in Revenue to bring a mini event-within-an-event for women leaders in SaaS and Cloud. Last year, we had an incredible 1000+ Cloud and SaaS VCs at annual.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

He interviewed him a year ago for another episode of the SaaS Revolution Show where the focus was on the part of the story that showcased Yesware’s success to date. Matthew started Yesware in 2010 together with his co-founder and CTO Cashman Andrus. You can find more information about his executive coach, Jerry Colonna here.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. 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. So he’s the CTO?

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

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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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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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The SaaS Garage

JULY 12, 2022

B2B SaaS Start-Up consalio schließt die Pre-Seed Runde ab und gewinnt Top Executives von Signavio als Investoren für seine Advisor Spend Management Lösung Duesseldorf, July 12, 2022 ( UNITEDNETWORKER ) — Consalio. Das Düsseldorfer Start-Up consalio hilft Firmen dabei, den Überblick über ihre externen Beratungskosten zu erhalten.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies. Join SaaS Boss Facebook Community The post 45 - Technical leadership (from a past CTO, CEO, Director of Engineering, and Coder), with Cynthia Del'Aria first appeared on Natalia Luneva.

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The SaaS Garage

JUNE 3, 2022

Trotzdem sei ihm auch immer im Kopf geblieben, was ihm ein Mentor vor Jahren mitgegeben habe: Die großen Themen, Kultur und Vision etwa, sind wichtig. Sonst habt ihr hier ein tolles Konzept, aber seid in zwölf Monaten pleite“, habe der Mentor damals zu ihm gesagt. Man müsse trotzdem schauen, ein Produkt auf die Straße zu bringen.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.” When I decided I wanted to be a CIO or CTO , I was an associate director or what other companies might call a junior director. Or have you always wanted to manage and mentor people ? It either works or it doesn’t.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS).

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. But they were doing it earlier than Java and trying to do it in a way where it gets deployed on the internet, which is something we would call SaaS today. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. Get your tickets to the SaaS show everyone will be talking about! I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO.

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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]. Vishal Sunak: I began my journey in B2B SaaS at Backupify, and got the opportunity to learn the SaaS game from some real experts. We’re on iTunes.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 4, 2021

Please join us for tomorrow’s SaaS Product Power Breakfast where we’ll speak with Dan Faulkner , CTO of Plannuh , about building great product teams. I serve as an advisor to Plannuh and I wrote the foreword for their book, The Next CMO , which Dan co-authored with Plannuh founder and CEO Peter Mahoney.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

There is a shift towards less capital-intensive startups with recurring revenues, and due diligence is crucial before taking on investors or advisors. Responsible tech in an era of hostile tech Rebecca Parsons, CTO (Thoughtworks.) Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Paul made his way into the world of startups with Twitter and Slack and how that led to his founding SaaS company, Balsa. So tell me Paul, how did you make your way into the world of SaaS and how did you come to found Balsa most recently? Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. So tell me, how did you make your way into the world of SaaS? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. How did his 4 years at Salesforce change his operating mentality?

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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. And it also really helps the company to be able to develop their risk appetites”. Plus, there’s the “black box” issue.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

A few weeks ago, [ CTO Jamie Tischart ] and I talked about this fork in the road that engineers typically get to where they either move into management or commit to writing code for the rest of their careers. We’re here to coach, train, and mentor the organization in how to think about software at scale.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. And it expressed a growing sentiment in the world of SaaS start-ups; for the majority of SaaS founders the traditional VC model is a clusterfuck that makes very little sense.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. Were there any mentors that helped you get to where you are today? I often say that Black people in this space are over-mentored. There’ve been some key mentors for me in my career. That was very exciting to me.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. Caught your interest? The LinkedIn Incident.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Karl made his way into the world of SaaS with the founding of Lucidchart having been Head of Business Development for Google in China and Head of Patents. * He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. Loving our podcast content? Karl Sun: Oh, that’s a great question.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He’s not necessarily interested in putting in the work that’s necessary or getting the coaching or the feedback that he needs. In fact, one of our decisions, in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem Turned out it became who I am.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Early in my career, I had a mentor who always said, “Your team is everything.” Related read: How the Busiest People in SaaS Manage Their Email. Read more interviews with the most interesting humans in SaaS. ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz. What’s the best part of your job? I’m very predictable.

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