SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Bob. 298: Startup success is not exclusive to Silicon Valley. Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Loving our podcast content?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. I’m recording the first in what I expect to be a series of interesting interviews.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

You can watch the full session , and if you missed the podcast with the first half of the interview, you’ll find that here. They’ve invested in all of these other businesses. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. Henry Schuck.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What were his core learnings from that? *

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers, the chief revenue officer of ADARA. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Brandon worked his way up from the very bottom to the very top.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So who they’re going to bring with them is critical, that them ideally even like interview them sort of in the process in parallel with the candidate because for me, for a first time VP of Sales, so say you’re … I don’t want to say any … I don’t know. New category. So he’s the CTO?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Paul. Because, you’re not getting as much of that by bumping into someone in the hallway outside the interview room, going, “Hey, can you ask about this thing? How will their training change?

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

In my opinion, the biggest downside to working in-house, whether it is a big brand or a startup, is that the messaging remains the same: the tech can evolve and it may have new features, yet the story around it tends to remain the same. Nobody buys anything new without googling everything about the company.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And many CEOs simply fail to understand the nuances of the role and the future building benefits of marketing investments made in areas like “brand” where the return on investment is not immediately recognizable on the balance sheet. I’ve played the following roles at various tech companies.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

If you’re interested in more history and perspective on the Manifesto, I enjoyed this podcast interview of Scott Duncan.) My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. Not all agile is bad agile.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. Sam Jacobs : We are incredibly excited today to have Simonne Taitt on the show.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Zvi Guterman. Zvi has leadership experience across a wide range of organizations, from his various fledgling startups to large national military organizations. He co-founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution acquired by Wave Systems.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. So, for those of you thinking, “Hey, I’m going wait on the ROI of our culture, or I’m going to wait to invest in our employee experience,” wait no longer.

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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. So we kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve. Then something really interesting happened.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared.

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