Tom Tunguz

MAY 1, 2014

Earlier this week, I wrote about the increase in cash compensation and decline in equity grants to VPs of Engineering and Product in startups. On average, founders retain 30-33% more equity than 4 years ago through those first two rounds of institutional investment. I dug a bit deeper into the data set to find an explanation.

Trends 100

Trends Fractional VPE Startup Part-Time VPE 100

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute e-signatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. They were engineers who invested in properties and over time built what is the foundation of the platform, and then over the years it has grown and scaled to what it is today.

Customer Success 58

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 58

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. There are a handful of us, but most of us are either from engineering or product backgrounds. It’s pretty rare that a VP of sales comes out and founds his or her own SaaS company. One of maybe the top 10 mistakes everybody makes is they want to hire this VP of sales too early.

Sales Hiring 274

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 274

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Come and hear about the typical pitfalls (and how to avoid them) from Pat Poels, an executive with over seven years under his belt leading Eventbrite’s now 300+ strong engineering team that sits across North America, South America, and Europe. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering.

Engineering 148

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 148

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Like none of that would be possible, we’ve got a very strong engineering and product team. We all see the positive effects of having a great engineering team. I’m sure it will be very like misunderstood those.

Scale 130

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 130

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Something that we did really poorly at TalentBin early on was not really focusing on a very crisply defined ICP and insufficiently investing in customer success. Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc.

Part-Time VPE 217

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 217

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

Part-Time VPE 245

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 245