Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. 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. That was the start of the Month of Scale. Claire Hughes Johnson : Yeah, definitely.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. And so we actually had to make some major adjustments and look for an alternative way to deliver the software which clearly meant that we needed to move to the cloud full-time. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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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. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Obviously, you should definitely jump at opportunities like this.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

It was a simpler time, perhaps. We no longer live in that simpler time. Building tools leads to the broadest impact. In the short written remarks that he submitted beforehand, he used the word “tool” 11 times. And finally, tools can lead you astray if you’re not paying attention. So there’s probably some of that.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Experience is kind of the holy grail when it comes to customer interaction, from marketing and sales to customer service and brand loyalty. 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.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. Oh, and do all of this with less time. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We focus on Series A, and we only make a small number of investments, probably four or five a year, precisely because like to work very closely with the companies that we invest into to really help you scale out of Europe. The bar is definitely higher, but I don’t think that it has to be. You want to think about lead generation.

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Panintelligence

JUNE 7, 2024

In this blog, we asked Panintelligence CEO Zandra Moore and CTO Ken Miller what they think are some of the most frequent mistakes in SaaS development and offer actionable insights to help you steer clear of them. Make sure the key stakeholders are involved in the definition of those metrics. We’re complex.

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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. You’ve got to think about taxes. There’s just a lot of work. Adam: Yeah.

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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. How intuition and heart can be built into a sales organization. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why outbound prospecting is difficult [11:45]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes. The result?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. Q: Based on your acquisition experience, are for-sale businesses focusing on the customer and NPS? Q: FranConnect has customers of all sizes, from emerging and growing to scaling and enterprise.

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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. It didn’t take me long to say, “Oh yeah, this is a leader I definitely want to work with and learn from.” Leading with honest, real-life conversation and perspective has served me so well over the years.

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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. Wistia is certainly not the first tech company to suffer from over-scaling, but their story is both unique and illuminating for a number of reasons. of the $3.5M

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2025

Co-founders Dharmesh Shah (CTO) and Brian Halligan (Chairperson) shared at SaaStr Annual the unfiltered truth on building an SMB powerhouse, pivoting to product-led growth, and why the “M” segment is SaaS gold. At SaaStr, we’re obsessed with knowing how the best SaaS companies scale from zero to IPO and beyond.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. 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. Of course, not at scale.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. Where does Erica often see founders make mistakes with this scaling? How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? Where do many go wrong?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? You need to discover in the sales process. And again, if it’s not teed up correctly in sales, CS is already at a disadvantage. I mean, what do they do?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. When you find the right partner, the right investor, what they can do in terms of helping you grow and scale a company is just invaluable. year sales cycles. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? Therese : Turned out I liked it.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does this requirement change as the company scales? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Vlad : Definitely technologist. And then it was just a matter of, okay, make sure that it works, make sure that it scales, then very important not to forget, make sure that people buy it, that they know how to find you, you know. en you start saying, scaling and what does that even mean? Jonathan : Technologist. Vlad : Ye ah.

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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. That just creates a flywall effect.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. When you find the right partner, the right investor, what they can do in terms of helping you grow and scale a company is just invaluable. year sales cycles. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? Therese Tucker: Turned out I liked it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Yousuf made his way from the UK to the valley and how that led to his becoming one of the leading CIOs today in the rising prominence of CIOs in enterprise. * It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Yousuf made his way from the UK to the valley and how that led to his becoming one of the leading CIOs today in the rising prominence of CIOs in enterprise. What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? Does that work for you, Yousuf?

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

So if you’re doing a sales-related category it’s not hard to companies full of ex-Siebel and ex-Salesforce people. Some startups have relatively complete teams while others have only a CEO and CTO and a few functional directors. That takes a lot of hiring and on-boarding risk off the table.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016.

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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? * Is there hiring decisions? I think one challenging thing is when you look at the scale of organizations and you think about change management with new tools. Is it product decisions?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Discussed in this Episode: The turnaround story of Cassie’s time at Sailthru and overcoming scaling challenges. The importance of leadership alignment and transparency during times of crisis. Highlights: 07:53 What happens when commercial scale outgrows your technical scale. So it was there for a while.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Currently, he’s the founder of MartinRoth.com, specializing in helping startups scale from $1M to $10M in ARR. Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. Youre not alone. Why HG Insights?

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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. We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves.

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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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