Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. I do my own reference calls.

CTO Coach

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Mallun Yen : So, when did you hire employee 34?

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. The very first few sales hire are I would say not your typical reps. Laura Bilazarian : Awesome.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? And what challenge that presented to us was how do we do that quickly. Megan Leuders: And when you were talking to CEOs and CTOs today, what do you believe is the biggest technology challenge that they are facing as a SaaS company?

Cloud

Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

If you want to learn more before getting the book then watch her presentation here on Youtube. They built an engine to find the customers that loved their product, find the features they really liked and then built their value messaging around it. They built an engine to achieve product market fit and find positioning.

Strategy

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr. How do you think about that and really a multiyear contracts and their prominence today if not or if paid up front? Y Dan Reich is the Founder & CEO @ Troops.ai Listen on Spotify.

Scale

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

How does Paul approach such large product decisions today? What does really effective product marketing mean to Paul? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Is it product decisions? Is there hiring decisions? Paul Rosania.

CTO Coach

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Harry Stebbings.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Companies that have great, happy, productive employees do better by every single return. Dharmesh Shah : So, I asked myself, “Okay well, who can best dig into this?

Part-Time CTO

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

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