User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. I approached the challenge of proving myself by pretty much consistently working harder and longer through much of my career. […] Now, as a new mum – it has forced me to find more balance.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

No, the amazing innovation of the iPhone was simply to bring a new generation of user interface to market with the touchscreen – and to really enable a different interaction that people have with the computing devices. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful. Product can do a huge amount there.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Finance departments aren’t the biggest fans of surprises, especially if you’re a public company.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will their comp change?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. They’ve raised about $6 million in financing and they found this person who is incredibly talented generally, but they didn’t need a role specifically.

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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. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Today on the show, we’re excited to have Vishal Sunak, the CEO and founder of LinkSquares where he’s responsible for developing strategies aimed at assisting both corporate, legal, and finance teams with the review of their contracts. Show Agenda and Timestamps.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. They taught us strategy finance and they taught us how to raise money but they did not teach us how to sell. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin.

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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?

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

April Dunford's definition: " In order to break through the noise, companies would need to take into account their own strengths and weaknesses, then contrast them with their competitors to create a unique leadership position in the minds of customers. My really crude definition : When I come across a new product I tend think "Wtf is this?

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. It’s about negotiation, presentation skills, leadership styles, corporate finance.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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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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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?”

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