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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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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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Engineering 45

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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Scale Scaling VP of Engineering Technical Review 113