SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product.

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 136

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time.

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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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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s how do you transition the team, how do you not loose each and every friendship that you’ve ever had?

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Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 148

Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Why building trust with your internal team is the hallmark of great marketing leaders By Geoff Roberts The role of the modern Chief Marketing Officer is a tough one—you’d be hard pressed to name another position that requires a wider range of skills. I’ve played the following roles at various tech companies.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. Which role should you hire for first? One thing is the timing. Is it a time?

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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Interviewing Startup Technical Review Technical Advisors 81

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. His name is Nate Walkingshaw and he has a book out on product leadership that was recently published, which is an incredible book. This won’t be that bad.

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B2B B2C Scale New CTO 133

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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