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. They also work to see if the engineer desires to build a product and not just implement technology.

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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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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. This technological integration into software engineering not only enhances the productivity of development teams but also ensures that IT infrastructures are robust and reliable.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Or at least where the co-founder CTO is a true equal partner to the CEO. You usually need to understand how and where technology is going. 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. Well to get something off the ground, You need to build it.

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

It provides findings and recommendations intended to foster a mutual understanding between business and software leaders, shedding light on the current state of your technology and your team. Our goal is to build a decent understanding of your business, your product, and your technology. Why TechEmpower?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Or at least — where the co-founder CTO is a true equal partner to the CEO. You usually need to understand how and where technology is going. But usually there is an amazing (in terms of cleverness, if not always pure skillset) CTO from Day 1. All run by ex-engineers as CEOs, or, business CEOs that have a true CTO co-founder.

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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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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. At the same time, this is an area that has been underserved from a technological solution set.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

“The initial appeal was just how easy it was to work with the system,” CTO and Cofounder David Heinemeier Hansson said, “that we knew rates were up to date and we were billing our customers for the right rates and we could defend that when we were submitting our paperwork.” Mark earned his B.A.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

My co-founder and our CTO were both wicked smart. We took a technology that was worthless, bought it, and sold it for $50 million just 12.5 A good / great employee can become 10x in a new environment was part of Auren’s point. I saw this live in my first start-up. But neither had worked on the right projects at their last company.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. What is different, special here?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Tips: to manage OKRs, and KPIs with ease with Kashinath Kadaba Shrish, Cofounder & CTO at Fitbots Leveraging new age AI technologies(GPT and NLP) to increase Organic Traffic using Scalenut with Saurabh Wadhawan, CoFounder at Scalenut What are the best marketing channels for SaaS B2B businesses?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2020

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon wrote about how Amazon uses cloud data lakes to operate their business. If you’re curious about cloud data lakes and the technologies powering them and would like to learn from the leaders in the space, come to Subsurface. A vital part of a cloud data lake is the open format of data.

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) play a critical role in steering technology-driven businesses and tech startups towards success. From keeping pace with ever-evolving technologies to leading development teams effectively, the responsibilities of a CTO are multifaceted.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2023

In my first start-up, there were literally only a handful of engineers who understood our technology. The best we made our CTO. But what if our CTO gets hit by a bus? He scaled up our technology in a way folks for years had thought was impossible. The second best, “William”? Well he was toxic.

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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 made you want to pursue a career in technology? I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do—I focused on technology, international business, and marketing.

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Stax

APRIL 24, 2025

As Chief Technology Officer at Stax, Mark’s at the forefront of artificial intelligence in the industry. Ever wondered how AI is shaping the world of payments? Staxs Mark Sundt sat down with John Gaffney from PYMNTS to dig into this topic.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) play a critical role in steering technology-driven businesses and tech startups towards success. From keeping pace with ever-evolving technologies to leading development teams effectively, the responsibilities of a CTO are multifaceted.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2022

Ezinne Udezue, VP Product Management @ Procore Technologies. Elias Torres, CTO @ Drift. Jen Dawson @ AWS. Olga Perez-Bonnelly @ Elastic. Sarah Din, VP of Marketing @ Builder.io. Tara Robertson, CMO @ Teamwork. Rajalakshmi Srinivasan, Director – Product Management @ Zoho Corporation. Jack Koziol, CEO, Founder @ Infosec.

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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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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Today I’m talking to Eric Muntz, CTO at Mailchimp , to find out what he believes are the most important qualities of a leader, his secret to achieving inbox zero, and the TV show he’s been on twice. I just say I lead technology. The post ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz appeared first on OpenView.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. Harrison Rose, Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer, Paddle. Ash Finnegan Digital Transformation Officer, Conga. Mickey Alon, Founder and CTO, Gainsight PX. Astha Malik, VP of Planning and Enablement, Zendesk.

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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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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 5, 2023

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. They can provide guidance on which technologies to invest in and help you create a roadmap for the future.

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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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BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Last month, IT Brews webinar focused on an all too common issue – rising software costs colliding with sprawling tech stacks.

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

It’s more ‘Oh, this technology is great. Benjamin added, “I think a lot of people think about this new AI technology as something that’s gonna just come in and like work from day one. For Douwe at ContextualAI, he believes technology has a lot of potential to do good. I want to try it on my chatbot.’

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2019

Luckily, she worked in the same company and had co-invented the technology. To hire our CTO, our first VPE, etc. Fifth, I raised the money and built the team and closed the first customers. You don’t always need to raise money to do a start-up. Bootstrapping is far better. And I learned to recruit.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Enterprise technology spend has remained resilient , with Cloud spend tripling over the last year. In our Gen AI Era ✨ Lightspeed breaks down this major technological shift in the Enterprise into three buckets: Foundation Model Enablement Application Vertical SaaS will be a big part of it. His first project was working on Java.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Bai took on a number of senior positions – Director of HR and Director of Marketing at Alibaba, as well as Chief Marketing Officer of Jiangsu Ju Teng Network Technology. in Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

And in a recent episode with Marques Stewart, vice president of technology at Achievement First, he briefly reflected on how he got promoted. I had just left the Peace Corps the same year the first iPhone came out, and now look where we are in terms of technology. When you deal with technology, it tends to be binary.

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