Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Companies will scale faster with flexible solutions replacing rigid legacy systems. Polis Pilavas , VP of Engineering at ChartMogul SaaS will shift to real-time personalization, enhancing individual user experiences by learning from every interaction, in an attempt to boost retention, increase satisfaction, and drive growth.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Software Review SaaS Part-Time VPE 40

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around. 13:26 The speed dating hack that landed Coffee’s first sales leader. 17:36 What Doug learned running Sales Cloud at Salesforce — and why he left. 24:37 Why sales tech stacks are bloated — and how AI-native CRMs solve it.

Sales Recruiting 82

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring AI Search Scale 82

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap.

Scale 274

Scale Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE 274

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap.

Part-Time VPE 304

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE Sales Recruiting 304

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Seat Contractions Have Brought NRR Down From 120% to 111% While 111% NRR is still quite an engine at this scale, the drop in NRR from seat contractions explains a good chunk of the headwinds Okta has seen. #2.

Fractional VPE 282

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 282

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich, Developer Success Manager Betsy Calender, and VP of Developer Experience Zeno Rocha share how to price your product for developers, how to market it to developers, how to how to support them as they scale and use the products. Bottom-up sales. The contract size grows.

Underperforming Technical Team 210

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Part-Time VPE 210

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. I just can’t do that.”

Part-Time VPE 290

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 290