SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

However, they are still relatively new and their value can be extremely volatile, making them a high-risk investment for some people. A cryptocurrency project is a venture or initiative that involves the development, launch, and management of a new cryptocurrency or blockchain platform. What is a Cryptocurrency Project?

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s challenging to find super high-quality folks unless you’re in B2C, where customer support is sales. Q: What Do You Think AI Will Do to the Next Generation of Innovators and Disruptors? You can find some pirates and romantics, and you might have to use AI. Give everyone x amount of money to go find the best one.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Average salary: $95,566/yr. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To combat this and be more agile, SaaS management is morphing and restructuring functional management and multiplying the number of new C-Suite titles like Chief Customer Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Product Officer, not to mention Chief Performance Officer and Chief Security Officer.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Created with Fareed Mosavat (Chief Development Officer at Reforge, formerly Slack, Instacart). Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. Engineering: Scaling Product Delivery , Technical Strategy , Engineering Management (new).

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g., In typical market conditions, new customers may be clamoring for new features.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team. Understanding the guardrails we need to build means closely tracking meaningful change across Intercom and making sure we’re on top of new initiatives”. Shipping quickly and securely. Continuous risk management. Evolving security landscape.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

311: Karl Sun is the Founder & CEO @ Lucidchart, a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does Karl think about working with recruiters? What works? Andrew Filev.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful. Product can do a huge amount there.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Erica made her way into the world of SaaS and came to be Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

If you find this valuable, check out more episodes of our podcast. Some of the things we talked about were operational overhead and cost of various data stores we were running, along with whether or not we needed to hire dedicated database administrators for various different technologies.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

No, the amazing innovation of the iPhone was simply to bring a new generation of user interface to market with the touchscreen – and to really enable a different interaction that people have with the computing devices. Has there been a sea change in how people feel about the rise of AI and that type of technology?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. How do you find it in the first place?

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OpenView Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Welcome to In CASEYou Missed It, where I take a brief break from my Weekly Walks to get to know some of the most interesting and innovative personalities behind the greatest startups in the world. This time I’m talking with Leela Srinivasan , CMO at SurveyMonkey , to talk about Weird Al, Dr. Who, and the most underrated attribute of a leader.

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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.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 18, 2020

Welcome to In CASEYou Missed It, where I take a brief break from my Weekly Walks to get to know some of the most interesting and innovative personalities behind the greatest startups in the world. My children ask me this all the time. Is there a new skill you’ve been working on during quarantine? I’d pick patience.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Now’s the Time to Revisit Your Pricing. This post will guide you through 10 innovative pricing plays you should consider, along with high-profile examples of companies who are testing them.

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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. Harry : It’s being innovating on those themes.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Find innovators (10:36). ? Identify who your innovators are, seek out those innovators. Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? How to overcome limited sales support (06:15). ?

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Announcing new features, increasing customer satisfaction and retention are among the top functions of an online community. . #1 Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features. Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support.

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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 to build diversity into your hiring practices. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

365: The Office of the Future, How Everything’s Changed and What 2021 Will be Like with Justin Bedecarre, CEO @ HelloOffice and Jen Nguyen, Founding Partner @ TEAMWERC. Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. Aaron Levie.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. So, his insights I find very helpful. Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Mistake 5) Promoting your culture on your careers page.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

But someone leaked those weights within days of the announcement, and that led to an explosion of innovation among independent researcher-hobbyists. This time, I suppose Meta learned the lesson and preempted the leak. whimsicalism) I work in the field and they just are not hiring the people they need to be hiring.

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Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people. Prospecting tool for generating new leads.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

* Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Is there hiring decisions? In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

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. 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? We did not.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. So the conversation is changing.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I’m sure many of you use New Relic.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 14, 2022

Considering this, companies are contemplating hiring a C-suite executive to head their AI team and handle related matters. If you follow the discussions happening within the industry, you would be aware of the arguments against hiring a CAIO. At the same time, there are a respectable number of discussions in favor of hiring a CAIO.

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