SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? ” And there can be some truth to that, right? .”

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Adam: The space itself is new, but it’s one that’s been hypothesized for some time. Caught your interest?

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In his personal blog Overreacted, he shares his experience, new trends and features, and explains complicated programming tasks. Ali is also the co-host of the Ladybug Podcast , with new episodes every Monday. #19 Related: The Definitive Guide to Passwordless Authentication. ReactJS frontend developer at Facebook 311.9K

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

A couple of weeks ago, we launched a new podcast called SaaSOps Leaders With David Politis. I just knew there was always going to be something new to learn and I wasn’t going to get stagnant in it. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.”

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OpenView Labs

JULY 16, 2020

I have no idea, but I do know it’d definitely be a musical. We did a song to launch our new mission, vision and values at SurveyMonkey, and I also rewrote “Shallow” for our CFO who left last year, then performed it with our President, CTO and General Counsel. ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

Even though we may seem a little biased, his other 267k followers definitely aren’t. Why Larry is Successful: Founder and former CTO of WordStream, Larry has tenured experience in the digital realm. How can I find new marketing Instagram accounts to follow? Gary Vaynerchuk . Handle: @garyvee. Follower Count: 9.1m

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. I was the only manager, and I definitely didn’t know what I was doing.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To combat this and be more agile, SaaS management is morphing and restructuring functional management and multiplying the number of new C-Suite titles like Chief Customer Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Product Officer, not to mention Chief Performance Officer and Chief Security Officer. Chief Product Officer.

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Unbounce

MAY 19, 2020

That’s the dictionary definition, anyway.) If your product offers an immediate solution to the challenges of the new normal, you may also want to place that message front and center on your website. But what does that actually mean? What Should You Avoid? So, we’ve explored a few examples of empathetic messaging done well.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

A Murder at the End of the World grew on me over the course of the season, and by seasons end it had reached “definitely watch” status. ” which is, at the moment, held by Hulu’s new Shōgun series. Not the highest possible status, “Can It Be Tuesday Already Please?”

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. AGI isn’t here today, is unlikely to arrive in the near future, and is not part of the AI news I’m writing about. AI does not mean “the machine is thinking.” HOLD MY BEER!”

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Crafty CTO

JULY 10, 2023

We are working on a new offering called ChatGPT Business that will opt end-users out of model training by default. Once you submit the form, new conversations will not be used to train our models. In the meantime, you can opt out from our use of your data to improve our services by filling out this form.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. Sam Taylor: It’s definitely nuanced. And so I think there was definitely an element of that at Dropbox too. What measurements should be used to determine their success?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. Meanwhile, Intercom’s infrastructure grew, the architectures evolved, our product got way bigger, and we hired a bunch of new people who had different engineering skills. That’s definitely how we move fast. Rich: It definitely influences how we hire.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Announcing new features, increasing customer satisfaction and retention are among the top functions of an online community. . #1 Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features. For example, before releasing/starting to develop a new feature, we run it by our community first.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. But the "configurable" part of this best-practice is just as important.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

There is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Obviously, you should definitely jump at opportunities like this.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When I joined GitLab, I was starting a new product-led growth team within the product organization,” Hila says. “We One of the first things I learned from Sean was that if you have ten developers on your team, put five on new product and the other five on new-user activation,” she says. Always be activating.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 14, 2023

It actually made some progress at this, and clearly the ability to feed it files as input opens up a huge range of new applications. The best I can say is, “definitely not my sandbox.” I was unable to locate the other two sources, which might make sense as they looked like snippets from actual research papers.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Definitely not. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce. How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? I’m not talking full-on paradigm shifts here. (“We

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the development and release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT. Sometimes you sleep and you wake up and you have a new idea. We put it out there and then people told us it is good enough to discover new use cases, and you see all these emergent use cases that I know you’ve written about.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. I would also encourage you as a new executive to have a separate executive coach. Gabby: You should always seek out mentors. Steve Gladis is my executive coach.

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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! I’ll do whatever it takes.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. We need to hire this new head of sales, who’s going to come in and change the way that we’re going to market. Yep, we did that.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

After all, thanks to the rise of Airbnb and similar platforms, the hospitality industry was looking for new revenue streams to boost bottom lines. I did some traveling and ended up going to New York City. I knew the timing was right, that this was something people wanted, and it would benefit this new market as well as the hotels.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. Common issues of the billing bottleneck include: Not having correct billing in place when new products launch. Robert Kern, CTO & Co-Founder, PredictHQ.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., If they are already solving the problem in some way, your new solution more likely represents an optimization than a breakthrough. The net result is that the new choke-point is series A (prediction 9). baldness cures [5]).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Twenty-two marketing experts took the stage to give new solutions to old challenges and actionable solutions to new ones—not to mention the food, people, games, swag and after-parties that made it the best CTAConf yet. This year’s theme was “The Marketing Revolution” in response to the fact that marketing has changed. Speechless.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. TWO NEW COMPANIES PLOT THEIR COURSE. Further Reading We Spent $3.3M

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today? Who are the new developers?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

Plugging the LinkedIn and Mastodon POSSE Leaks From now on, any significant small idea gets done first on Crafty’s Illustrated as micro content using these new microformats. Here’s a recent LinkedIn post version of the micro entry linked above.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Recently, I spent several hours with a new but great friend who has been on a vaguely similar journey to me. In my first start-up as a founder, I had a great CTO and VPE and a pretty darn good VP Ops from the very beginning. Even if the definition of “great” will change at each stage, and over time.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Alice de Courcy : “ I definitely had to change the way I behave and operate in order to be respected at times. I approached the challenge of proving myself by pretty much consistently working harder and longer through much of my career. […] Now, as a new mum – it has forced me to find more balance. Laura : “I haven’t.

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