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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Peter Kazanjy: Most of the literature is really for existing sales leadership or sales professionals, but not for people who have never sold before. So that’s why I ended up writing Founding Sales , and that led into Atrium, and also led into Modern Sales, which is the sales operations, leadership, and enablement community that I run.

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Building a Stellar Engineering Organization

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Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. We were in total four engineers working on the product, including me, including our VP of Engineering, so four in total. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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10 Years In Tech

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Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

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But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. They were a small company.