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

SaaStr

How can you bridge the gap between sales and tech to drive customer success? 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.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

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. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? I don’t know.

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The Top 50 SaaStr Answers on Quora in 2020

SaaStr

What makes a bad CTO? What types of due diligence are undertaken by VCs before investing in a company? 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? How much does a VC make?

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

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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Ham and Egg: How Team-Based Selling Boosts Win Rates

Sales Hacker

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. Third, review the critical areas where reps may need the most support.

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How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia

User Pilot

TL;DR Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia is an author, speaker, coach, and the founder of Product School. Digital transformations often fail due to unclear vision and outdated methods, not team adoption or tech implementation issues. It isn’t the lack of team adoption or poor implementation of new tech. Want to learn more?