TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The Founder-Developer Gap and A, B, C Players The challenges that business leaders face when assessing development teams are a good example of the Founder-Developer Gap.

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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. We sat down with Tischart for an informal, but wide-ranging discussion about software development, management philosophies, and the future of engineering at BetterCloud.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. Jessie Lam. Jessica Liu. Kathleen Ting.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work. [00:59] Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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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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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Think of the best CTO-level software developers that you know—do you think your product would progress faster if they were building it 2-3 days per week, or if you hired an average developer in a full-time capacity? Consider the alternative of hiring a Junior Software Developer at a salary of $80,000 per year.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

DevOps is really a set of ideas and practices that emphasise a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. How to improve DevOps culture?

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Automattic is a web development company best known for “Wordpress.com”. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, text messages, and other communications through its web service APIs.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time?

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” So what is Shape Up?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will their comp change?

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. Let there be tasks Since the dev team wasn’t handed a list of tasks, they need to develop their own. The identified slice needs to be small enough to execute in a few days, and if possible, something novel, new to us. And shipping!)

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

He’s spent more than 17 years focused on sales, product, and client development. The thought was, if I’m in New York, my client’s in Chicago, LA? I am a New Jersey-ian by birth. I’ve spent most of my life in the North East, working and living in New York or New Jersey. Brendan Kamm: Sure.

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