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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? I worked in semiconductor before getting into the tech side of things. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. What measurements should be used to determine their success? How should the success of marketing be measured?

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

One anecdote I heard recently: an agile expert convinced a company to pay him $2K per head to train every single employee in their technology organization in Scrum. The tech organization had over 50 people, but only a third of those were actually developers. Total cost, well over $100K. Not all agile is bad agile.