Finance Investment Leadership New CTO 
SaaStr
JUNE 28, 2022
Missing your financial plan in the middle of a financing. And as frustrating as it may be to hear, it’s a fair reason in many cases not to proceed with a venture financing. The real goal here is to push up the effective price by having the VCs “pay” for an increase to the pool after the financing closes. Who is the CEO?
SaaStr
JULY 10, 2021
Everyone here I think actually has a different background that they bring to the table, whether it’s a programmer, whether it’s in finance, whether it’s in law. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. It makes sense that that would be the role that comes in as the CTO.
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Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 24, 2021
Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.
SaaStr
JULY 19, 2019
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? ” Or, “Every lamb chop came from New Zealand?”
OPEXEngine
JUNE 16, 2020
The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. The scariest thing a new CEO can say is “it looks like you guys had a bad quarter” [9].
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Loving our podcast content? What works?
ChurnZero
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Traditionally, it’s the chief officer of finance or operations. Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. It can be hard to convince PE firms to invest in the customer. We do it across the board.
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