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Final Speaker List for 2021 SaaStr Annual!

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We’ll also have a digital day with the President of Shopify, CMO of Canva, the CEO of Y Combinator and so much more if you can’t make it IRL. Harley Finkelstein, President @ Shopify. Katrina Wong, VP Marketing and Demand Generation @ Segment. Amy Appleyard, VP Sales @ VMWare. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired.

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

Intercom, Inc.

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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

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As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Which role should you hire for first? How can you recognize that a VP is great, not just good? One thing is the timing. Is it a time? Get best price tickets here!!!

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. And what a year it has been!

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

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Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

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And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.”

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

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And so with that I’m thrilled to welcome Erica Schultz, Chief Revenue Officer at New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. And prior to New Relic, Erica served as Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Customer Success, at LivePerson.

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