SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO. Then I was the CTO at another YC company, Standard Treasury, acquired by Silicon Valley Bank. The 60 is probably where your core plan should be. We have a 60% chance that we can do it.

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Outsourcing Services Banking CTO Hire New CTO 243

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

When Co-founder and CTO of Chargify , Michael Klett isn’t brewing his own beer, he’s crafting billing experiences. Chargify launched in 2009, and the goal was to help SaaS bill and collect revenue. A lot of the reason RevOps is so prevalent right now is due to the fact that companies are hiring specific revenue operations roles.

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CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO CTO 98

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was. Sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes three times.

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Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 105

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. It was just being in, I think it was in Copenhagen at the time as where the Money20/20 first started. It was talking to their CTO and team at the time. And they were seeing lots of fraud.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 81

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We hire remarkable people, and we give them a lot of freedom for how they’re going to get their work done. Who actually knows stuff and does things?”

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Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 291

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And a fun fact I just learned as I was doing some research before this, you were also employee number one at a flip-flop company back in 2009 before getting into tech. Let’s go hire somebody. Okay, now you got to go figure out how to hire and who to hire. I’ll hire the person. I love it.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 116