Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something. I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. The talent.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 13, 2014

At conferences, events and coffee meetings, startup founders and employees freely share many of the insights into product design, marketing, customer success, and engineering best practices. One could argue the entire open-source movement is a giant continuing education program for software engineers.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Y’know, the big-scale campaigns that go viral, make you cry with their upbeat messages of hope and wonder, and are forwarded to you by your Aunt Annette 10 years after the fact? Sounds like a big opportunity for talent-starved companies to recruit, right? Community is also a key feature in their marketing lead gen efforts.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One client was an early pioneer of Kubernetes and a large-scale adopter of OpenStack, back when these things weren’t even 1.0, The right reasons lead to the right payoffs. The community grows and not only guides the product, but becomes a highly credible form of marketing, recruiting, and retention. It was always chickens first.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. What were Steve’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at AppDynamics? Why does he believe this is so important?

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Codium is one of the fastest-growing startups in the AI coding assistant space, having scaled its go-to-market team from 3 to 75 in just under a year. Recently valued at over $1 billion , Codium is proving that AI-driven software development is not just the futureits the present. Their strategy?

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