SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Including: CEO Snowflake CEO HubSpot CEO DropBox CEO Descript CEO Clio CEO Flock Safety CEO Own CRO ServiceTitan CMO Databricks CMO Infinite Reality CTO Rubrik CCO Canva CCO Bill CCO GitHub VP AI Wiz CEO Calendly and 100s more!! Competitive Intelligence and Market Insights and New!!

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. How are you using geographic information?

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

Common Signs You Need a Technical Review We’ve already mentioned the most common signs that you might need a technical review: Slow or late delivery: “I’ve authorized two new developers, and we’re still behind.” Are you preparing to expand, take your business in a new direction, or take on new partners? And what causes that?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

ChatGPT suffers from “hallucinations” – confidently providing incorrect information. ☞ Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom. . ☞ Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom. Great stuff!”

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

They get CTO training. The informal, ongoing training fades into a little help the first week. These webinars will also be great training for the new folks. Get rid of non-standard discounting and other dramas that will confuse new reps. They get CEO training. They sit next to the founders, the team, to everything.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

We had Lew Cirne, Founder & CEO of New Relic, Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot and for the first time at Annual, we added office hours with the top VCs in SaaS. total attendees, e.g., a CEO + a VP of Sales and a VP of Customer Success, or two Co-Founders, or CEO + CTO, etc. 2020 SaaStr Annual At Home.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Then came customers who didn’t feel comfortable providing their credit card information online. Meanwhile, new tax legislation for SaaS companies was brewing. Our first introduction to sales tax was dealing with it as a liability,” David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO and co-founder of Basecamp, told TaxJar.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. Soon after, new teams started building a lot of new features and services, and they assumed full on call responsibilities. The history of on call at Intercom. There were too many people on call at any moment.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We identified some “ known unknowns” too; problems we needed to solve, but didn’t know how just yet – like integrating the new region into our billing system. And so our former CTO and co-founder Ciaran Lee decided we were just going to start. We introduced virtually no new software, services, or approaches into our Europe buildout.

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Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In a Quora thread , Ian McAllister, Director of Airbnb and former GM of Amazon describes the process: “ For new initiatives a product manager typically starts by writing an internal press release announcing the finished product. Rewrite the blog post until you have something you’d be happy publishing.

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Scytale

MAY 30, 2025

Good information security never goes out of fashion. TL;DR Information security compliance is crucial for protecting sensitive data and maintaining customer trust, and it applies to businesses of all sizes across various industries. For many businesses, information security compliance should be a top priority.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. I've always been one to jump on the new thing as soon as I discover it. Social Media is always changing, and platforms come and go.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 5, 2023

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. When you don't have an in-house technology leader: If you don't have a CTO or a similar technology leader on your team, a fractional CTO can fill that role.

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Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re a new entrepreneur in the software industry, scaling your startup, or a seasoned SaaS provider, securing a SOC 3 audit report can be a game-changer for your business , helping you strengthen customer trust while demonstrating your unwavering commitment to data security. The good news?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Well, in the past several years, there’s been a tremendous number of companies that have built specifically for developers and use this as a way to get into these new markets, to displace incumbents and disrupt the competition. You have the opportunity to upsell new features and capabilities to them. The contract size grows.

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Scytale

MAY 29, 2025

If youre running a SaaS business that collects or processes data from California residents, chances are youve heard about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and its impact on how you manage personal information. created to give California residents greater control over their personal information. What is CCPA?

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Scytale

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Yaron Lavi CTO at Deel Book a Demo Key Components of SOC 2 Policies SOC 2 policies are your rules of the road for handling data responsibly, ensuring your operations align with the relevant Trust Services Criteria (TSC) while keeping your business secure and your customers happy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

That’s why it’s so important to make sure that people have the information they need to make good decisions, and that they know what the actual goal is. For example, I can give input on the data base schema if I want to, or if I have a strong opinion, but the CTO or the tech lead makes that final call. Heist-style collaboration.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Information is more powerful when you connect it, which is why Woven enriches your calendar with as much information as possible so people can spend time on the things that matter most. They don’t know about the information that is going to be discussed in an event. Tim: There’s always a fear of change.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

I am passionate about working with partners to grow existing relationships and forging new partnerships to ultimately help grow businesses through product innovation and Stax is the perfect place to do this.” For more information, visit staxpayments.com. and Canada.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Christopher Doman As co-founder and CTO of Cado Security – a leading platform for cloud-native digital forensics and incident response – Christopher Doman is a seasoned cybersecurity professional making waves in the tech startup space. As co-founder and CEO of Wayve , he is transforming transportation with AV2.0,

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Scytale

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s all about ensuring the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of the information your business handles – aka: the SOC 2 Trust Service Principles. You might need to implement new security measures, update some of your policies, or train your team to follow new procedures.

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Scytale

DECEMBER 3, 2024

You can think of them as different tools in your information security toolkit – each with its own purpose, focus, and results. Unfortunately, your business’s information security is only as strong as its weakest link, so whether it’s a misconfigured firewall, outdated software, or a simple human error , vulnerabilities can happen.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

ISO 27001 stipulates specific requirements for establishing, maintaining, and improving an organization’s information security management system (ISMS). For more information on ISO 27001, take a quick detour to our ISO 27001 under 27001 milliseconds guide, wrapping up the most significant aspects of the leading global security standard.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team. The mission of the Intercom Information Security (InfoSec) team is to foster and safeguard customer trust – and we think a lot about how we preserve Intercom’s agility while also recognizing and mitigating the highest-rated security risks. .

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then we reach out to them and then we let companies know what candidates say so they’re informed about the market. If you have the CEO, CTO, some executive chat through, here’s the big picture of the company. Why are you looking for a new job? Let’s find a new shirt. Is it a school? Is it a company?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope that by the end you have some new ways of thinking about what tools you use yourself, and some of the pitfalls that you might not be aware of. It highlighted all kinds of tools and techniques that would be useful in building a new type of self-sufficient lifestyle. To start, let’s ask: what is a tool? Developing a career plan.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? As new options roll out, keeping customer experiences seamless and continuous across all digital platforms grows is highly important. A DXP pulls information in but also delivers across multiple platforms.

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Kellblog

MAY 10, 2023

I’m no longer excited about the new product that we’re building, but I want to keep funding it because we’re out raising money and VCs like it as part of the pitch.” Participating preferred stock , where the new class of preferred stock gets both its liquidation preference and its pro rata , as opposed to one or the other. five years).

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BetterCloud

MARCH 3, 2021

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. We sat down with Tischart for an informal, but wide-ranging discussion about software development, management philosophies, and the future of engineering at BetterCloud.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

Why You Should Follow Gary: With video content that delivers day after day, Gary sounds off on the latest trends, serving as a weathervane for the digital community, as well as informational videos about leadership and self-care. Why Larry is Successful: Founder and former CTO of WordStream, Larry has tenured experience in the digital realm.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Successful product teams use it to make better-informed decisions, turn customer feedback into actionable ideas, and create better resources to support and engage customers effectively. He also organizes ProductCon, a conference that takes place in San Francisco, New York, and London and attracts thousands of product professionals every year.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful. Product can do a huge amount there.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Today on the show we’ve got Ryan Walsh, founder and CEO of a company called RepVue, a place where you can get objective third-party information. Actually, it’s first party, objective information from reps themselves about how much people make at different companies. Before we get there, we have two sponsors.

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