Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Above is a chart comparing the number of “billion” dollar startups by the total number of founders and the share of technical founders. 70% of teams have at least one technical founder. 30% of teams have no technical cofounders. The full dataset is here. founders; the median is 2. 10% of founders have an MBA.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Andrea has led numerous sales initiatives and teams at enterprise software and solution providers, including Varolii, IBM, Symphony Technology Group, Vitria Technology, DigitalThink, and PeopleSoft. Trish Bertuzzi founded The Bridge Group to help B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 17, 2018

Applitools’ CTO, Adam Carmi, lived through this pain as VP R&D at Safend, where he worked alongside his Applitools cofounders, Gil Sever and Moshe Milman. As a result, product releases are either delayed or defects are left unresolved, damaging the customer experience and tarnishing a company’s brand.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Newer company/technology. So the third hardest-to-change key factor is technology. If you’re considering going to work at a twelve-year-old startup [6], understand that it’s very likely built on twelve-year-old technology premised on a twelve-plus-year-old architecture. an arms race) and thin (e.g.,

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Roblox cofounder and CEO David Baszucki and a16z’s Jonathan Lai look discuss the ways AI is changing games and virtual worlds and how we create them. [00:40] What types of technology abstract away different hardware devices? Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Dave: Yes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In this conversation with a16z’ Vijay Pande, she discusses how an LLM for cells could revolutionize drug discovery and how to bridge the technological and cultural divide between building with atoms and building with bits. [00:32] Every part of our technology stack is intrinsically AI-enabled. 00:32] Why life sciences? [03:23]

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Viviana Faga, Investor & Advisor @ Coda. Eva Pittas, CoFounder @ Laika. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Karim Atiyeh, CTO & Co-Founder @ Ramp. Abhinav Asthana, CEO @ Postman.

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Saasler

MARCH 28, 2017

Jakob has a long history of working with early stage startups in a technical marketing role, and his thoughts can usually be found on industry blogs like Bi zible and Saascribe. “I Mathilde Collin : At only 27, this Parisian lego-lover has cofounded and lead a successful SaaS venture, Front App.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For example, in the reference above, Apple doesn’t technically discount their technology on Cyber Monday. For example, Peter Kazanjy , Cofounder of Atrium HQ , suggests saving on commodities but splurging when there’s a superior differentiated solution. This is reasonable and it could still be a great product.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

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? I’m asking you to pay to use our technology for your 200 person client success work. I’m asking you to pay to use our technology for your 200 person client success work.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

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. But I did love technology and I wanted to work in technology, so I thought technology policy might be the area for me. Karl Sun: Oh, that’s a great question.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. Hang Black. No one does it alone.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

It’s not all technical. Allyson is highly certified in Salesforce and attributes her success to a knack for technology and a love of finding and solving problems. He is also a board member for the New Technical Fund whose mission is to fund organizations that enrich people with skills using new technical methods.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Better and cheaper technology has enabled the creation of scalable pricing structures, so you’ll rarely see examples of flat rate pricing in SaaS. And from that flows decisions about what and who to spend time on,” says David Heinemeier Hansson , co-founder and CTO of Basecamp. “[My Who is using a flat rate pricing strategy?

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. But, fundamentally, it hasn’t changed and part of the reason is it’s been sold to enterprises and it’s a little bit of technology, essentially a data warehouse with a ton of professional services wrapped around that.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. I was living in the Bay area at that time, moved back to Israel and then did some hobbies and ran some of my ideas, at some point in time called Oren, my cofounder in Tipalti.

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