Remove CTO Hire Remove Finance Remove Leadership Remove Product Marketing
article thumbnail

The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

You’ll need to hire aggressively to get to the next level and continue that rapid growth. But what roles should you hire for, and what will your org chart look like at each stage? Head of Product. Head of Marketing. Positions Needed: Demand Gen, Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, Events/Community.

CTO Hire 237
article thumbnail

CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Whose Company Is It Anyway? Differences between Founders and Hired CEOs

OPEXEngine

Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g., Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. However, some do [5]. International License.

article thumbnail

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. Well, let’s transition then to leadership. Excited to be back emceeing.

CTO Coach 134
article thumbnail

Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. That was actually a pretty tall order at the time.

article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz: Well I actually started in the world of SaaS back in 2005 so about 14 years ago when I was still at Oracle Corporation and it was right after we’d acquired Siebel Systems and I took on a leadership role for what at the time was known as the CRM on demand team. I came back to North America.

Scale 161
article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

How does Paul approach such large product decisions today? What does really effective product marketing mean to Paul? Is it product decisions? Is there hiring decisions? So product strategy decisions, vision documents. Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO.

CTO Coach 172