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45 – Technical leadership (from a past CTO, CEO, Director of Engineering, and Coder), with Cynthia Del’Aria

Natalia Luneva

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. She is currently on the verge of starting a new FinTech startup which will be her fifth but she has built close to 100 startups for other people over the years. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies.

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Applications for Reforge’s Spring 2022 Cohort are Now Open

Casey Accidental

Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Engineering: Scaling Product Delivery , Technical Strategy , Engineering Management (new). Product Leadership. Apply to Join Reforge ].

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Top 11 PLG Experts You Must Follow on Social Media in 2022

Frontegg

Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Sam’s growth team at OpenView is helping dozens of companies to elevate their conversion and retention metrics today. #8 Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). 5 – Keiran Flanagan.

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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? She kicked my butt in every metric you could possibly imagine. Sam Taylor: On my first leadership role, I was the first enterprise sales rep, a manager of mid-market team. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. They have a core philosophy that you cannot have a successful high-growth software company if your core metrics around Customer Success are not strong, including NPS.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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