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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Dharmesh Shah : As part of that exercise, I did some data collection, and we created this deck called the HubSpot Culture Code, which has exactly 128 slides.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. All the while, she was also building up her path in entrepreneurship. Kathleen Ting studied at Cornell University before joining the financial service provider BlackRock in New York as Global Consulting Relations Analyst.

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

SaaStr

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. You can’t grow your business if your customers don’t trust you with their sensitive data. And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Start early. Don’t skip on automation.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female. A friend of mine is working in finance as a compliance manager, and every New Year’s party the guys are literally harassing women. Because he is. of leadership roles.

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. Robert Kern, CTO & Co-Founder, PredictHQ.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. I think copywriting overall is one of the most underrated skills in entrepreneurship generally. This is how startup entrepreneurship works up here if you're self-funded. And whether they start a new company or not, they sort of live as a user at the edge. So this is Dharmesh.