Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. But there's an urgent need for technical resources within growth teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Casey Winters Growth Advisor at Greylock.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

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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. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the founder and CTO at Nine Star Inc.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Currently she's Executive in Residence with Reforge and advising other companies. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Because that (abandonment) wouldn’t be a solid foundation to acquire more new users. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. What works?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? And how would you advise them? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

It’s not all technical. Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. Check it out.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Could somebody come in and help with a technical conversation?

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I had a chance to have dinner with him and a group of PRs, and it was actually him who advised me to join a PR firm as my skill set seemed to be a perfect match. What we are seeing is that often there are companies with 2 co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and marketing is often left behind. Since then, I’ve been on a PR mission!

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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? ” Or, “Every lamb chop came from New Zealand?” and Socialcam.

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