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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

SaaStr

ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. And your first VP of Marketing just increases qualified leads by 25%. More on that here and a great video discussion below: You’ll probably be ready for your first VP of Sales by $1m in ARR. But you’ll need a manager to scale beyond 2.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Some naysayers doubted that genAI could scale into the enterprise at all. Leaders are starting to reallocate AI investments to recurring software budget lines. On a much smaller scale, we’ve also started to see some leaders deploying their genAI budget against headcount savings, particularly in customer service.