Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. We were like 18 people at the time. Jason Gardner: Yeah, an interesting path over 13 years.

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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? This is not a winnable solution.

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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.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Second, cloud-hosted SaaS apps meet “consumerized” technology buyers via a freemium sales models. For example, as a lead is nurtured and converts to become a customer, you might need to: Integrate payments (Stripe).

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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.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

One of the best examples of this type of sales is Netflix—its pricing strategy paved the way for many modern subscription platforms. Because the contracts are typically much higher in these sales agreements, B2B subscriptions often require a much longer sales process before your customer will consider making a purchase. B2C pricing.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. Or, if you do ask for a three year contract, have some terms in there that show that you’re going to prove ROI. Down the road, you can say, “ I demand a two year contract. I demand payment upfront. Well, right.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. We were part of the office of the CTO. If you give me that solution, I will pay for it.” Sam Jacobs: Wow.

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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.

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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.

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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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