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Meet the SaaStr Europa 2022 Speakers!

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Dave Kellogg, Principal @ Dave Kellogg Consulting. Michael Manapat, Head of Engineering @ Notion. Krista Moroder, Director of Engineering @ Checkr. Pierre Alain Bouchard, VP of Engineering @ Zendesk. Pierre Alain Bouchard, VP of Engineering @ Zendesk. Giorgos Ampavis, VP of Engineering @ Tide.

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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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PODCAST 65. The Framework to Deliver Exceptional Customer Success w/ Kim Rose

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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.

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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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. Strategy actually comes down the page.

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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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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.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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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. ” Then it turns out that a VP of engineering doesn’t have time in their day to do searching, and writing outbound emails, and so on and so forth.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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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.