TurnKey Labs

MARCH 6, 2023

The fact is, not every company needs a Chief Technology Officer. Knowing how to hire a CTO is one thing—knowing when to hire a CTO is another. But if you’re reading this, chances are you’ve put together a strong team and dynamic product, and have realized you’re missing an integral piece of the puzzle.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2020

Q: What makes a bad CTO? While there is no legal definition for CTO ?? or bright line between CTO and VPE, I’d suggest a start-up CTO really only has to do a few things — which are very hard: Assemble a small team (3–9) of very good engineers. So … a “bad” CTO is one that can’t recruit a strong “pizza box” team.

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SaaStr

MAY 11, 2023

CEOs of Freshworks and UiPath, Hashicorp VP and CTO, VCs from Air Street Capital and OpenView, and More! And grab 20% off the FINAL tickets here : The post New SaaStr Europa Speakers!

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2022

SaaStr 564: Top 10 Learnings Architecting a High Throughput Critical API with RevenueCat CTO Miguel Carranza. with Jenn Knight, Co-founder and CTO of AgentSync, and Daryna Kulya, Co-founder of OpenPhone. The post Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Flexport CEO, RevenueCat CTO, ZoomInfo CEO, Samsara CPO appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2023

SaaStr 663: 9 Things I Wish I Would Have Told My 2013 Self: Lessons Learned from 9 Years with Heap’s Former CTO, Dan Robinson   3. SaaStr 662: Things You Think as a First-Time Founder That Just Ain’t So With Lattice Co-Founder & CEO Jack Altman and SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin  2. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

SaaStr 636: Extreme Product Design: Building Things People Actually Use with Stripe CTO David Singleton  2. Extreme Product Design: Building Things People Actually Use with Stripe’s CTO David Singleton 5. SaaStr 635: CRO Confidential: How Customer-First Focus Drives Retention and Revenue With Brex GM of Startups Lucas Fox   3.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2023

SaaStr 663: 9 Things I Wish I Would Have Told My 2013 Self: Lessons Learned from 9 Years with Heap’s Former CTO, Dan Robinson  4. Lessons Learned from 9 Years at Heap with Advisor & Former CTO Dan Robinson 2. SaaStr 665: CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to $100M Journey with Wiz CRO Colin Jones   3.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2022

SaaStr 564: Top 10 Learnings Architecting a High Throughput Critical API with RevenueCat CTO Miguel Carranza. The post Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Gusto CEO, RevenueCat CTO, Intercom CEO, Notion CRO, and More! SaaStr 567: 16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stripe’s CTO, David Singleton, shares how they use a system of feedback, iteration, and fast shipping to create products that meet users’ expectations. Stripe is one of the few who have unlocked the code to great product design by changing their approach to the product design process and constantly engaging with users.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2022

with AgentSync Co-Founder & CTO Jenn Knight and OpenPhone Co-Founder Daryna Kulya. with AgentSync Co-Founder/CTO Jenn Knight, OpenPhone Co-founder Daryna Kulya, and Craft Ventures Partner & COO Brian Murray. The #1 Most Important Thing You Can Do With Your Leads: Implement an SLA. Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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Infinicept

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

New Role Extends Infinicept’s Leadership in Embedded Payments and Drives Advancements in Embedded Finance DENVER – February 9, 2023 – Infinicept, a leading provider of embedded payments, today announced that it has appointed Anne-Jeanette LeBell as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The final speakers and sessions are: David Singleton, CTO of Stripe. The post The Final, Awesome SaaStr Annual Speakers: CTO Stripe. Chief Growth New Relic. Final SaaStr Annual speaker count: 292 Speakers: 48% Men 52% Women pic.twitter.com/HsRaXcaTpt. See everyone Sep 13-15 in SF Bay Area! Chairman HubSpot. SVP Eng at Slack.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 5, 2023

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. When you don't have an in-house technology leader: If you don't have a CTO or a similar technology leader on your team, a fractional CTO can fill that role.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2022

SaaStr 600: Founder Confidential with HubSpot Founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah, & Founder and Executive Chairperson Brian Halligan. ?. The post Top SaaStr Content for the Week: CTO HubSpot, CEO Braze, VPS Twilio, COO Expensify and more! (Updated). 5 Interesting Learnings from Figma at $300,000,000+ in ARR. Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Up this week is Karim Atiyeh, co-founder and CTO of Ramp. More on what Karim’s doing different the second time below and here: The post Uncharted and Electric: Ramp’s Co-Founder and CTO on Why Adversity is Important at a Young Age, What Get’s Harder The 2nd Time Around appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2022

Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . Instead, the CTO suggests that you avoid adding new pieces of infrastructure until absolutely necessary. What makes a great API?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Or at least where the co-founder CTO is a true equal partner to the CEO. Unless again, you have a true CTO as well, that is also leading the company. But usually there is an amazing CTO from Day 1. All but one run by ex-engineers as CEOs, or, business CEOs that have a true CTO co-founder. But — Jobs had Woz.

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2023

Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. What Your Job Is (And What It Isn’t) Your Job is to Make the Company Win A CTO may imagine their primary job is to provide technical expertise, lead engineers, and help build the product.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Hiding that they don’t really have a CTO, or that they’ve already raised a ton of money, or other big issues. Sometimes a little is OK from a top CTO, but basically never a CEO. The best founders do win, but they also profoundly respect the competition — and understand and learn from them. Hiding core issues during fundraising.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 10, 2022

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter has been on all sides of the technology industry. He was most recently CTO of core technology and transport at Grab, a super-app serving Southeast Asia, and prior to that held leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Oracle, among other places. In this interview, he shares his views on the.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 3, 2021

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. The first line was, ‘With almost three decades in technology,’” he told me. What are some of the biggest challenges that you’d like to tackle as the company’s new CTO?

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. What’s changing, rather, is the entity I’m delivering through – a new company called Crafty CTO.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We caught up with one of the SaaStr community’s favorite speakers, Dharmesh Shah CTO and co-founder of Hubspot on lessons learnings launching a second product. It’s great: The post How, When and Why to Launch a Second Product: A Deep Dive with Dharmesh Shah, CTO Hubspot appeared first on SaaStr.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s common for founders to assume the role of chief technology officer (CTO), who either runs the day-to-day work of engineering or focuses on a long-term technological vision. Note: engineering leaders’ titles tend to be inconsistent across companies.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2022

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. More like this at 2022 SaaStr Annual, Sep 13-15 in SF Bay Area!! The post “What Do You Mean They Quit?!”

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2022

Jenn Knight, Co-founder and CTO of AgentSync, and Daryna Kulya, Co-founder of OpenPhone, discuss how different approaches have helped each brand reach its target audience and accomplish its goals, the potential of product-led growth, and how to scale growth strategies to yield desirable results.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 10, 2022

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter has been on all sides of the technology industry. He was most recently CTO of core technology and transport at Grab, a super-app serving Southeast Asia, and prior to that held leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Oracle, among other places. In this interview, he shares his views on the.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And second, I really worry when there isn’t a great CTO on the team. If the CEO is also the CTO, that can work. When I had a true co-founder, nothing could stop us. When I didn’t, I still did well. But I was much more mortal. But when it’s a driven CEO but with weak or outsourced technical team?

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2022

CTO at Okta. CTO at Circle. CTO at Carta. CTO & SVPE at Ripping. CEO at Coda. SVP of Eng at Amplitude. Head Core Product Eng at Notion. SVP of Eng at Rescale. VP of Eng at WeWork. And much, much more!!

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2022

Elias Torres, CTO @ Drift. Shradha Kothari, Chief of Staff, SVP & GM North America Sales @ Twilio. Elias Torres, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer @ Drift. Fatima Yusuf, Director of Commercial, Ecosystem @ Shopify. Jennifer Lawrence, CRO @ Expel. David Cancel, CEO @ Drift. Shoaib Makani, CEO @ Motive.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 31, 2023

cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2023

How do you hire a great CTO, a great VP of Product, a great VP of Sales … if you’ve never worked with one? Finally, find a great CTO, CMO, VPS, VPM, etc. Dear SaaStr: How does a First Time Founder Identify 10x Hires? It’s hard. Because they didn’t really know who a 10x hire would be, at that stage, back then.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

And critically, most have a really strong CEO-CTO partnership. A few general learnings: A VP of Product that Reports to CTO / Engineering Rarely Meets With That Many Customers. One reason the decision gets cloudly here is that as a SaaS company scales, the CTO needs help on product as the sheer complexity explodes.

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