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.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

He made many great leadership points, but one in particular rattles around my head a lot and I think deserves its own post: You usually won’t know if you’ve made a 10x hire … when you make the hire. My co-founder and our CTO were both wicked smart. They more often rise up. I saw this live in my first start-up.

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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

APRIL 21, 2024

If you’re a “business” founder, know it’s really, really hard to win without a truly great CTO. Too many founders aren’t honest about why they will win. If you aren’t sure if your technical co-founder is good enough, ask the top engineering leader you know what she thinks.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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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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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies. Leadership matters irrespective of the size of the organization. What first time founders need to understand about leadership. The differences between good and bad leadership.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2019

“Juggling People, Processes, and Priorities: Leadership Lessons from Intuit, SurveyMonkey & Stitch Fix” with Heavy Bit GM Dana Oshiro Intuit CTO Marianna Tessel, SurveyMonkey CTO Robin Ducot and Stitchfix CTO Cathy Polinsky. ” When to Hire and When to Automate” with Zapier CEO Wade Foster.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2020

1: “On Launching a Second Product with Dharmesh Shah, CTO / Co-Founder Hubspot” An incredible catch-up session with Dharmesh from this week, #2: “Churn is dead. 10: “What Being a Founder Taught Me About Leadership – Lessons from GitHub’s COO” Ok this was another session that just shut down the office.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Darragh Curran , our Chief Technology Officer, emphasizes how promoting diversity has to be more than just a question of how we hire. Diverse teams are repeatedly proven to be more innovative, productive, and happier.”. Investing in education.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Juggling People, Processes & Priorities: CTO Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines. Tarik Faouzi. Rose Nuñez. Channel Management. IBM. [link]. 9:00 – 9:50AM. Marianna Tessel. Intuit. [link] . 9:00 – 9:20AM. How to Design and Build a SaaS Platform Pressure Tested for the Enterprise. Catherine Wong.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David considers product to be its own department that should also report directly to the CEO, instead of falling under the CTO. CTO (40 Employees). CTO (114 Employees). The Org Journey: Series A – Series C. Series A (~ 50 Employees). Team Size: 12. Head of Product. Team SIze: 4 -5. Positions Needed: PMs and Designers.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. First, legacy businesses often face cultural barriers and resistance to change when it comes to implementing new technologies and practices.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

leadership #womenintech #SaaStrScale [link] pic.twitter.com/JMuRqVP3ae. Ash Finnegan Digital Transformation Officer, Conga. Mickey Alon, Founder and CTO, Gainsight PX. " Save your seat today! — Rolf Heimes (@rolfester) November 13, 2020. Our next big digital mega-event SaaStr Scale is coming up soon, Dec 8-9!!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And the few that don’t generally had a founder that decided to bring someone else in themselves (often a CTO type): This doesn’t mean it is easy. In SaaS, if we look at 60+ of the top SaaS companies that have IPO’d, the vast majority still seem to have the founder CEO as CEO at IPO. Almost 90%. The vast majority.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. The definition of CTO is so broad and that’s what I like about this role! Go Yankees!

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2023

Almost all of them had an amazing CTO or CPO, and hired a simply epic VP or two. Some wicked smart, some merely very smart. Some direct, some warm and friendly. But what made them great: Ability to attract amazing co-founders and execs. Not just great, but epic. Ability to iterate pretty darn quickly.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mike Wiacek, CEO at Stairwell, Mo Jebrini, CTO at Mashvisor, and Michael Ermolenko, CTO at Inworld.ai, discuss with Helene Ambiana, Global SMB and Startups Marketing Director at Google Cloud, how they overcame the hurdles of scaling and reached their goals. .

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our Dublin team is led by our co-founders Des Traynor (our Chief Strategy Officer) and Ciaran Lee (our Chief Technology Officer), along with Paul Adams, leading product management, design and research, and Darragh Curran, leading engineering. Paul needs no introduction for most of you reading this.

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Scytale

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Currently, he’s the Chief Technology Officer of CF Partners, a pioneering force in risk management, trading, and asset management within the commodities domain. He spearheads the development and delivery of high-impact technology and data solutions that resonate with the company’s mission and vision.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Vira Tkachenko, CTO at Ukraine software developer MacPaw , spoke remotely to Apple admins at Jamf’s JNUC event. A real-world example of a woman in a leadership position in tech , she explained how her company planned for business continuity during the war in Ukraine.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This time I met up with Lisa Campbell, Chief Marketing Officer at Autodesk, to talk about leadership, the most underrated superhero, and the thing that’s always in her pocket. ICYMI: Meet Yamini Rangan, Chief Customer Officer at HubSpot. ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

He moved into various senior and leadership roles (which makes sense, given his focus below!) She’s the most recent hire at that level (Joel wrote about the decision to create a product-focused leadership role ), but it’s hard to imagine a Buffer without her. 

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Kellblog

MARCH 4, 2021

To me, Nuxeo is a tale of technology leadership combined with market focus, teamwork, and leadership. Congrats to Eric, the entire team, and the key folks I worked with most closely during my tenure on the board: CMO/CPO Chris McGlaughin , CFO James Colquhoun , and CTO Thierry Delprat. All to produce a great result.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

I’ve been reminded of this question in several meetings lately where founders are doing pretty well, getting to and past Initial Traction, but with hindsight it’s interesting that the founder that took the CEO gig perhaps was better suited to a different role, say CTO or SVP of Sales or President or COO or SVP Product.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… Jean-Michel Lemieux, Shopify CTO. Prior to joining Squarespace in 2016 she was the CFO of Info and spent 17 years in leadership roles at IBM. Here is a glimpse at just a few of our standout unicorns. So, how do you choose amongst the stable of unicorns?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio, shared he was never really included when he was CTO of Stubhub … because he wasn’t 100% committed. And that it still hurts folks to think Okta isn’t “cool enough” or “big enough” … even though it’s now a $30B company! They seem so … perfect and giant.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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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

MARCH 7, 2021

5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. Most of us hire a VP of Engineering to take over from our CTO because we see the CTO is getting burnt out, or has trouble building a dev team > 8-9 folks, or gets disinterested in solving technical debt, bugs, etc. That’s when you want to lean in. More here.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

The company’s leadership should work to identify potential compliance gaps by analyzing data management practices, security protocols, documentation processes, and employee training programs. Assessing Compliance Gaps: Maintaining compliance requires thorough evaluation of existing systems, processes, and policies.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

No matter how great a hacker your CTO is. And this VPE role often involves zero code commits. Without a great VP of Engineering, you won’t be able to scale your engineering team. Are their exceptions here? Can you skip some of these VPs? Wait longer?

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale 363

OpenView Labs

APRIL 12, 2019

It became clear after a month that our young team had a lot of enthusiasm, but lacked senior leadership. We needed a CTO. If the challenges around hiring a senior developer late in the game are high, hiring a CTO can be even tougher. But we can hire 3 x junior developers for the cost of a CTO!” Let’s talk about the CTO.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2020

In addition to a fine selection of customers for each panel, I was pleased to have two thought leaders joining me as well: Rob Kugel from Ventana Research , and Jack McCullough , president of the CFO leadership council and author of Secrets of Rockstar CFOs.

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