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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

You will need a VP of Engineering to manage these processes, recruit and build the team, and make your product more secure and enterprise-ready. She can be your CTO forever. That’s a different, and critical, job than CTO. 95% of the time, your super-smart hacker co-founder is not that person.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

You will need a VP of Engineering to manage these processes, recruit and build the team, and make your product more secure and enterprise-ready. She can be your CTO forever. That’s a different, and critical, job than CTO. 95% of the time, your super-smart hacker co-founder is not that person.