SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) The move to mobile devices and constant internet access fundamentally changed every aspect of our lives, and AI will have an even more significant impact in how work is done and how we spend our time.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Athletic 's strategy for the past three years has been to hire top-talent journalists in the sports space, getting people to pay for high-quality journalistic content. And the Canoo team just announced something called The First Wave , yet another way it plans to shine apart from the growing field of electric mobility companies.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Somebody that has a passion for innovation — somebody that is upwardly mobile within their career — they are looking for something new, something great, a way to stick out. If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. Well, you would approach this by hiring more SDRs.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He focuses on cloud, mobility, SaaS, and marketing automation. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. His insights on SaaS sales, hiring sales reps, and finding customers are a gold mine for anyone in the SaaS space. A Y Combinator Alum, she is an investor as well. David Skok.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

what we use today) advanced mobile usage, cloud infrastructure, and interactivity through social media, Web 3.0 QuikNode wants to see technology transform decentralized applications, smart contracts, decentralized governance, voting systems, and more. Building for the Evolving Internet For those who may not be familiar, Web 3.0

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. There were about 1,400 people, just under a billion dollars in revenue, and I was hired as the CIO of the company with the mission of driving the productivity of the workforce. That was actually a pretty tall order at the time.

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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. We’ve had to hire really smart, driven, intellectually?curious

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Social media, mobile apps, in-app ads, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and more have promised to help us put experience at the forefront. Do we have the technical support, in-house or contracted, to take on the learning curve of an emerging platform?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Whether that’s mobile on your online store, whatever it happens to be, will become your dominant interaction style with your consumer, and your physical locations will be that tactile, real world experience that a consumer may encounter once in a while. From contract signature to launch. I have a one year contract.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.” And all of a sudden they’re like, “I guess, I could hire remote.”

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. It was pretty easy being an SDR for Marc Andreessen because he’d been on the cover of Time magazine. Angus Davis: Yeah. It worked out.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

So they decided to implement a simple swipe system that allows users to mark expenses as they come in on their mobile phone. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says. As a result, they had difficulty separating work and personal expenses.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

So they decided to implement a simple swipe system that allows users to mark expenses as they come in on their mobile phone. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says. As a result, they had difficulty separating work and personal expenses.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was when we realized we had to go hire some experienced enterprise go-to-market leaders, like Heather Zynczak who runs marketing at Pluralsight. We realized that what the CTO and the CIO need to know is what skills do I have, what technology skills exist in my business, what skills are missing relative to my tech strategy?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. With Quora, I think we were a little bit slow to adopt to mobile. You’ve got to think about taxes.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? He was like, "You should probably hire someone outside of HubSpot for this role, for your growth.".

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? He was like, "You should probably hire someone outside of HubSpot for this role, for your growth.".

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