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 163

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 163

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. And I think the reason for that is, is that because of the interconnectedness of systems and architecture, there has been a big role of enterprise architecture across the company.

Technical Advisors 167

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 167

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? So they kind of got that wrong, right?

Payment Methods 216

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 216

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And unfortunately it wasn’t Larry and Sergei who we’re starting Google at the same time, but it was two other students doing something much more mundane. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. It’s in the cloud.

Sales Recruiting 179

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 179

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

And any odd stuff on the cap table, or existing terms — at least highlight them, and come with a solution. Nondisclosure of loans and repayments of founder “debts” from proceeds, and/or other unusual payments to founders or other execs. I don’t see this all the time, but I see it too often. Sometimes that’s fine.

Finance 292

Finance Technical Review CTO Hire New CTO 292

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

B2B 135

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 135