Kellblog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As we struggle to hit top-down targets through rounds of cost-cutting, we cut here and squeeze there so much that we can develop a certain myopia. Or product relative to engineering? Why do we forget this? Or have incoherent cuts across departments left us close to attaining financial targets, but out of balance across functions?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael has 15 years of experience running global sales and product teams across multiple software and FinTech companies. Today on the show, we are incredibly excited to have Michael Coscetta. Who is Michael Coscetta and what is Compass [2:00]. The origins of Compass, how it achieved scale, and its competitive advantage [7:13].

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”. At MIT’s 2014 CIO Symposium, ThomasNet President Mark Holst-Knudsen said his greatest business/technology failure was building software when they could have bought it. 52% of projects were challenged, and 19% failed.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the end, I suppose it shouldnt be surprising that when the president puts a For Sale sign on access, that some come forward as interested buyers of power. AI will be a huge driver of the rebound, because of both the large VC investment it attracts and its ability to convert headcount budget into software budget (e.g.,

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