SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. No one, I think,, is fond of showing up one day and being told that they have a new boss if they haven’t been engaged in that process. What works?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Things are just moving at such a dizzying pace that you have to really be able to reiterate an education through repetition is probably one of the advice that I tend to basically give to founders. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side.

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Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 164

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. This was in 1997, and I spent two years. And don’t use recruiters.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. You’re a builder, you’re an educator and you’re a citizen. Casey: Number two, educator.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That’s pretty wild if you think about it, but the source of the problem is quite clear to me: CMOs are failing to build trust with their CEOs and leadership teams. Just as a CTO may have to explain the importance of technical projects to a CEO, the CMO needs to educate the CEO on the various ways marketing can drive their business.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

In my opinion, the biggest downside to working in-house, whether it is a big brand or a startup, is that the messaging remains the same: the tech can evolve and it may have new features, yet the story around it tends to remain the same. Nobody buys anything new without googling everything about the company. Expecting miracles.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

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. Or, my favorite, I’m new, this is my first time. jason Lemkin : I think 50 is the new, the new number for me. Can you fix that and educate them?

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