SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You’ll need to hire aggressively to get to the next level and continue that rapid growth. But what roles should you hire for, and what will your org chart look like at each stage? billion in 2012. David considers product to be its own department that should also report directly to the CEO, instead of falling under the CTO.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Liam Geraghty: From the very start, Intercom’s mission has always been to make internet business personal, so it’s not surprising that we’ve been podcasting for a long time; since 2012, in fact. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Andy Yates, Staff Engineer 📍Started at Buffer in June 2012 as iOS Engineering Lead 🌎 Location: California, U.S. ⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. He moved into various senior and leadership roles (which makes sense, given his focus below!)

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The secrets to effective leadership and management. Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly [16:07]. Chris was actually the first sales hire at Snowflake. We started building that in 2012. That really led me to start building out the organization and gave the investors, quite frankly, the will to allow me to hire people.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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