Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Christopher Doman As co-founder and CTO of Cado Security – a leading platform for cloud-native digital forensics and incident response – Christopher Doman is a seasoned cybersecurity professional making waves in the tech startup space. He also co-founded Ignite Research, building and running an advanced hotel search engine.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you have the CEO, CTO, some executive chat through, here’s the big picture of the company. Why are you looking for a new job? If I’m Google and I breathe into the wind, 500 engineers apply for my job. Let’s find a new shirt. Lizzie Mintus (07:58) Yes. Here’s your impact. How do SMBs compete?

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Additionally, it supports third-party analytics tools such as Datadog, Splunk , and New Relic Insights, enabling a comprehensive and unified monitoring process. Sarah Kim, CTO at GrowthCraft, highlighted the cost efficiency: “As our system grew to hundreds of services, our previous monitoring solution became prohibitively expensive.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“And as engineers,” Sanjit explains, “we just like building things. Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. A lot of Samsara’s early sales leaders, sales reps, and a lot of engineers all liked working together. It’s the world behind the curtain.

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2025

We’ve been saying for months that speed is the new moat in SaaS Sales with the advent of AI, and yeah, that’s still 100% true. Engineers who grasp marketing. Your prospects are already experiencing this new reality with companies like Perplexity. His and his lawyer’s time is 10x more productive on these calls.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Prompt Engineers Don’t Need to Be Technica l Some of Gorgias’ most effective prompt engineers came from customer service backgrounds rather than technical roles. A team of 20 engineers, including five focused specifically on AI orchestration, works continuously to improve the system.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

My live experience at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 in San Francisco could be summarized as “extremely intense.” I hope these notes help you get a sense of the energy, trends, and ideas shaping the future of AI and AI Engineering. It’s possible, no doubt, that I’m missing something important.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2025

As I dig in to recap what I saw and learned at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 in San Francisco , I was forced to face my failure to write consistently – a failure that dates back almost exactly a year, to June 12, 2024. Working With My ChatGPT Intern 2023-05-29 Yesterday was a new record. Later, I confirmed it.

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. What does the role demand?

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2022

The competition for engineers is fiercer than ever — and that means that companies need to work harder than ever to attract and retain them. Everyone involved has experienced these struggles firsthand, and what they say may help inform how you treat the engineers on your team. #1. Focus on retaining your engineers from day one.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

If one new AE has a hundred calls made a week, and the other has three hundred, and is converting more of them, Well, that’s a pretty good sign that the second one is more effective. You know, you mentioned people that are constantly having new contextual experiences, high intensity, high in curiosity, like. Scott Barker: Yeah.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The final speakers and sessions are: David Singleton, CTO of Stripe. Rukmini Reddy, SVP of Engineering, Platform @ Slack together with Shadi Rostami, Executive VP of Engineering @ Amplitude. Manav Khurana, Chief Growth Officer @ New Relic sharing how to really scale. Chief Growth New Relic. Chairman HubSpot.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2022

Our partners and good friends at PlatoHQ, the web’s leading engineering mentoring platform, are doing an incredible event-within- an-event at 2022 SaaStr Annual on Sep 13-15, Elevate : Come hear from and learn from at Elevate at Annual 2022 : SVP of Eng at Slack. CTO at Okta. CTO at Circle. CTO at Carta.

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2022

Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . Instead, the CTO suggests that you avoid adding new pieces of infrastructure until absolutely necessary. What makes a great API?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? ” And there can be some truth to that, right? .”

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

On call work like this can be a powerful customer orientated activity that connects engineers to the value customers get from your product. Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. The history of on call at Intercom. Finding the right on call process.

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TechEmpower SaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

Common Signs You Need a Technical Review We’ve already mentioned the most common signs that you might need a technical review: Slow or late delivery: “I’ve authorized two new developers, and we’re still behind.” Are you preparing to expand, take your business in a new direction, or take on new partners? And what causes that?

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TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New features always require significant rewrites, and consequently a lot of time. And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Developers seem unconcerned about bugs or system downtime.

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. An updated classic SaaStr guide on how to know if that new VP you worked so hard to find, recruit and get on board … is really going to make it. And 3 Things Not to Worry So Much About.

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. And if this description doesn’t resonate with Mark, he can ask for a new one, while providing feedback. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers. 245 employees in Sales & Marketing — vs. 101 in Engineering / R&D. The engineering team is also surprisingly lean. #7. This is rare.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On Monday, at TC Disrupt Colin Zima CEO of Omni , Jordan Tigani CEO of Motherduck , Daniel Svnova CEO of Superlinked & Toby Mao CTO of Tobiko Data who are leading the evolution of the Post Modern Data Stack discussed the trends they are seeing. Customers are excited about new architectures that significantly reduce cost.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2020

This modern architecture for data analysis, operational metrics, and machine learning enables companies to process data in new ways. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon wrote about how Amazon uses cloud data lakes to operate their business. Cloud Data Lakes are a trend we’ve been excited about for a long time at Redpoint.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. Most of us hire a VP of Engineering to take over from our CTO because we see the CTO is getting burnt out, or has trouble building a dev team > 8-9 folks, or gets disinterested in solving technical debt, bugs, etc. That’s when you want to lean in. More here.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The three times it happened to me: A very senior engineer that we just HAD to have. In my first start-up, there was one engineer we had no choice about. But I forced us to hire him, over my CTO’s strong objection and my VPE’s grudging acknowledgment we had no choice. But not someone that could manage engineering.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Not launching 3 Truly Game-Changing Features doesn’t mean you didn’t ship any new code or features. That opens up entirely new segments of the market. Of course you did. A Truly Game-Changing Feature is something: That makes your customers’ and prospects’ jaws drop. That materially increases close rates.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. Braindates are 1:1 and small group networking sessions designed for you to share knowledge and network with like-minded SaaS leaders during SaaStr Europa.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s hard enough to build a second product, with all the constraints on product and engineering. ” If that works for your new product, sell it with your existing team. Time and time again, I see an exciting new product sort of stall out at launch when the buyer is a different ICP. It so rarely does.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some of the biggest use cases for AI in the enterprise are across customer support, sales and marketing, and engineering — ie helping developers test code and troubleshoot issues. Benjamin added, “I think a lot of people think about this new AI technology as something that’s gonna just come in and like work from day one.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We identified some “ known unknowns” too; problems we needed to solve, but didn’t know how just yet – like integrating the new region into our billing system. And so our former CTO and co-founder Ciaran Lee decided we were just going to start. Once we started building, our engineering principles helped us to keep moving fast.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… Marianna Tessel, Intuit CTO + Cathy Polinsky, Stitch Fix CTO + Robin Ducot, Survey Monkey CTO. We’re especially excited about this all-star, CTO panel from three publicly traded companies. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2021

They know how to take an established brand and grow it faster, and build or expand a new core offering around it. 100k+ deals are the majority of its growth engine. Salesforce may not be great at creating brand new things anymore. Bret Taylor is President and COO of Salesforce — and Facebook’s ex-CTO.

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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. Hooi Ling Tan is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Kathleen Ting studied at Cornell University before joining the financial service provider BlackRock in New York as Global Consulting Relations Analyst.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2025

In Microsoft’s home state of Washington, software engineering was by far the largest single job category to receive layoff notices, making up more than 40% of the roughly 2,000 positions cut in the May round. AI is an accelerator that will drive new product development, thereby creating demand for more employees.”

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