Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

“The biggest thing I can do for Slack is to hire people who know a lot more than I do and give them free rein to do their best work” Adam Risman: You mentioned the team started with performance marketing. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. Andrew Chen: Exactly.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Understanding Cloud Computing and Recent Trends Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing resources, including storage, processing power, and software applications, over the internet. By integrating cloud computing into their business operations, companies can unlock the potential for innovation, collaboration, and growth.

multi-cloud Kubernetes 52

multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Cloud CTO Hire 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I think the key thing that I had realized after several years in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, it really centers on the fact that a lot of the technology that I was seeing was really, a lot of the innovation was happening in the Bay area. And then helping being able to drive innovation across the company.

Technical Advisors 167

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 167

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.

Technical Advisors 165

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 165

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

You’re going to have to either innovate or the other option. From contract signature to launch. And that transformed their ability to innovate. Touching it, playing with it in a way a CIO or CTO might not before? I can actually innovate rapidly in the system,” right? I have a one year contract.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 216

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

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? So once we had Sequoia and Khosla in, we had these references people could call them, so that was fine. Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise? That’s like who you’re hiring too.

Scale 153

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 153

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. You are no longer in “innovation” mode. Back to the point.

Software 75

Software CTO Hire Scale New CTO 75

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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Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 273

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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