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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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Hear From These Speakers at SaaStr Annual 2020

SaaStr

Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… “When to Hire and When to Automate” with Zapier CEO Wade Foster. After building their initial prototype, the team presented at Startup Weekend in Columbia and won. At the time the duo had founded Pagar.me, a payment processor.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. There is so much knowledge in the sales CRM systems.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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%.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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 actually just got off the boat, Nick, and scurried up to make sure that I was ready to go for the presentation. They want to have a tech touch and that is a better solution for them than a high touch.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

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. Harry Stebbings.