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The Deadly “AI Slow Roll” in SaaS: It May Cost You Everything

SaaStr

You know what I’m talking about: It’s the VP of Engineering who’s “still evaluating Windsurf and Cursor” but says it’s still a little bit early. The mediocre middle of go-to-market teams is about to be hollowed out, leaving only elite relationship builders and strategic consultants at the top.

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup

Sales Hacker

First, because if you think about Salesforce, they’re always looking at its agents, its mobile, its social, it’s like everything. It’s just like you call him on his mobile or you, you, you text him, right, so he runs a how many kajillion billion, you know dollar company just off of his phone. Yeah me also.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. For roles like mobile engineers or data engineers, we tried to hire a database administrator for a long time and struggle with that. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011.