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. Remember what collaborating on a document looked like ten years ago? Today, customer recommendations are a very small portion of Amazon’s total investment in AI. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce.

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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. Order of magnitude cheaper OpenAI kicked things off on March 1st, when they announced new ChatGPT and Whisper APIs , along with tenfold less expensive pricing. HOLD MY BEER!”

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC 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.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

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. Tools require investment, but they also require planning to ensure that they are used by the right people in the right way.

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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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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

Why invest precious time on such a limited solution? In other words, a whole new set of systems just to get secure, compliant SSH. All the time, I was becoming less and less convinced that Systems Manager was the best solution: “All this mucking around, just to open a tunnel to an RDS replica?” What is Tailscale, Really?

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VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) AWS Underperforming Technical Team ECS (Elastic Container Service) 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

And then Beyond that, how can they make AI an expert in what their product is so that their customers don’t have to go read all their documentation, but instead, just talk to an AI as if it was a solution architect or forward deployed engineer and be able to use the product immediately.” Compliance matters. Security matters.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. What's the best way to do a kind of documentation? You need to invest at least a year or even two years. Because that (abandonment) wouldn’t be a solid foundation to acquire more new users. That will never work.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? So product strategy decisions, vision documents. 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. How will the structure of orgs change around them?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They had occasional advertising here and there. Here’s Rachel.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 14, 2017

In other words, Freemium leads to a big influx of new accounts, which leads to performance problems, impacting the whole platform (a great way to anger your loyal paying customers!). Secondly, documentation is an incredibly cost-effective way to provide good, scalable support. Your recurring revenue (à la ChartMogul’s new Free plan).

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. This is not new. They might have focused on different areas, but applying the scientific method to marketing is not new.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. Since each Midjourney prompt creates new, unique imagery, it eliminates an entire manual step in the workflow—the need to search around for where else a stock image might have been (over-)used. When the rules of the game change. Kenzo: What game?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. In the good sense, like go and build the kind of organization and process that made them successful in the past, but you need to hire that kind of person when you’re willing to make a big investment and a big change in that area. What is good?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

Businesses run on documents, Conga is changing the way the world works by modernizing, streamlining, and automating your documents, contracts, and processes to make it easier to do business. The thought was, if I’m in New York, my client’s in Chicago, LA? I am a New Jersey-ian by birth. Our first sponsor is Conga.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

Hmmm, this seems familiar, where have we heard about the power of the AI open source community recently … oh yes, the leaked Google document! The Leaked Google Memo On May 4th, SemiAnalysis, a boutique semiconductor research and consulting firm, published a leaked internal document authored by a Google researcher.

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