Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Lessons learned on leadership with Karen Peacock and Leandra Fishman.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

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. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 152

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 152

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. The problem was he couldn’t find a platform to use.

Payment Methods 190

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 190

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. 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.

Technical Advisors 153

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 153

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. I came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Recruiting 166

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 166

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

While startups have ups and downs, if you tell the VCs you’re going to hit $250,000 in revenue this month … make 100 percent sure you hit that projection. At least, just that one month during the funding process. I don’t see this all the time, but I see it too often. Half of a VC investment is in the CEO.

Finance 275

Finance Technical Review CTO Hire New CTO 275

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was our first transitionary moment, and from that point forward, we began investing heavily in building a way to teach people technology skills outside of a physical classroom. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. So we built it quickly and we shipped it.

B2B 132

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 132