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45 – Technical leadership (from a past CTO, CEO, Director of Engineering, and Coder), with Cynthia Del’Aria

Natalia Luneva

Her career spans nearly 25 years, and includes development skills in the full web stack, as well as the business side of the house. She is currently on the verge of starting a new FinTech startup which will be her fifth but she has built close to 100 startups for other people over the years. How to successfully lead a team.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. costs money and 2.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. Sima Banijamali – Sr. That was my perception of tech. Maja Voje : “Inititally, I wanted to be an art historian.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? And so really it became a bad habit. What have been some of the challenges?