OpenView Labs

JULY 16, 2020

I have no idea, but I do know it’d definitely be a musical. I just haven’t ever got the time to do it. We did a song to launch our new mission, vision and values at SurveyMonkey, and I also rewrote “Shallow” for our CFO who left last year, then performed it with our President, CTO and General Counsel.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves?

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Obviously, you should definitely jump at opportunities like this. That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. Work on developing your brand. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. Anything less is not acceptable.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Definitely leverage automation.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

We don’t necessarily think it affects our sales, but it definitely impacts overall customer satisfaction. . As we continue to work remotely, often employees are losing that human touch or personal development. Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Anyhow the one thing I learned, beyond getting help screening and hiring for these positions from domain experts, is to look for Flags. For signs the prospective hire just won’t work out, no matter how strong they might look on paper. OK, I know many great developers are architects. Why join a start-up? Architects.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was. I knew nothing about tech. That was my perception of tech.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

And that ultimately is what led us to become a Google Cloud customer, but what we saw is that it was speed, it was scalability, it was security, reliability, but also on the development side: Who was gonna take us faster to market from a development perspective when we made our selection to ultimately pick a cloud provider.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. After the Series A, Buffer fell into a similar trap to Wistia - they hired too quickly, specifically to accelerate product development. of the $3.5M

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. What is LinkSquares?

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

” This definition, to reiterate my prior post on the subject , is most useful when it applies not merely to “time-is-money”, but to the speed of learning. Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Yet they live on borrowed time.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. We decided at that point to bite the bullet and say everything we’re going to do, whether it’s how we architect the software, how we go to market, how we actually contract everything is SaaS from here on out. Your big money is going to go into hiring your employees.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does Karl structure the hiring process today? What works?

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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. And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

When I was a couple of years into my tenure at Oracle, I moved down to Latin America to Argentina, sight unseen actually, and built out a telesales group in Argentina and then later in Miami, hiring about 100 people from 11 different countries and that early building experience really whet my appetite. I came back to North America.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

And whether it’s Algolia, Gainsight, New Relic or anything else, you’re being measured on value, not just adoption and at the same time, even outside of COVID, there’s all these other trends happening. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Jeff Winters: I’m worried you’re not going to think they’re funny, definitely not by today’s standard. We know, by persona, by ICP, how people respond to what, for a long period of time, and how we can, more specifically, get meetings with these individuals,” because that was the name of the game.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

This unbalanced cycle of blockchain app developers not having the infrastructure they need is happening again today. QuikNode wants to see technology transform decentralized applications, smart contracts, decentralized governance, voting systems, and more. Read more about QuikNode Definitely take a look at QuikNode's blog.

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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. How have you seen it develop? Harry : For the company.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Is there hiring decisions? If you’re hiring right now, I think it’s extra important to have the hiring criteria all the way down to specific things you’re looking for, for a candidate or red flags documented, so that everyone is super tightly aligned. Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Users come to us all the time and they say, Hey, this company looks awesome. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager. And if you get hired, RepVue will actually pay you $500. And it’s easy to inflate that for companies during the hiring process.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Just as important as a definition of what a digital experience platform is what it’s not. By definition, it’s software that allows you to create, manage, and share your brand’s content. Do we have the technical support, in-house or contracted, to take on the learning curve of an emerging platform?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The bar is definitely higher, but I don’t think that it has to be. I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. It’s known that you can probably sell those first couple of contracts. Emilie : So, yes. Emilie : Okay.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Aaron Levie: That shift is definitely starting. Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules. Ray Ozzie somewhere is out there being like, “What the f**k, guys? Why is this now finally happening?”

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Vlad : Definitely technologist. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise? Vlad : Well we did have to hire a new CFO. That’s like who you’re hiring too. We did not.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

Simmone talks about her experience building Gilt City and Kidpass as a woman of color and how she advises companies to build diversity and inclusion into their hiring practices and sales teams. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. It really starts in how you’re hiring. Unconscious bias is a part of all of us.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But for some reason the importance of the CMO building trust internally doesn’t get discussed nearly as often—yet it might be the single most important skill for a marketing leader to develop. Full-time Head of Marketing I’ve been hired to lead marketing teams at four companies in a full-time capacity now.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

Why did you develop your PR agency in London? What we are seeing is that often there are companies with 2 co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and marketing is often left behind. If you have some sort of budget – I’d recommend hiring someone in-house. Since then, I’ve been on a PR mission! Tell us more about your team.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. I think when you go six months behind the frontier, or definitely one year, it’s brutal.

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