SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. If you have an Enterprise or sales-led motion with humans onboarding and handholding, that fails in self-serve. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. Product marketing is neither marketing nor product.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As part of my comprehensive Buffer onboarding — which had me up and running at full speed in a matter of weeks — I was tasked with setting up intro calls with the company executives.  Andy Yates, Staff Engineer 📍Started at Buffer in June 2012 as iOS Engineering Lead 🌎 Location: California, U.S.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Dan Adika : We started in 2012, 400 people, different offices around the world. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. How do you do that?

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Drive new levers of growth. Through this work, it can drive new revenue opportunities. Ultimately, health scoring is just another tool in the toolbox; it’s not a command center,” says SaaSWorks ’ Head of Operations Michael Redbord, who previously built HubSpot’s first customer health scoring system back in 2012. “It

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This is 2012 when I met Scott Wolf, the founder. It’s in New York. The other thing is, I live in New Orleans. Levelset was the only venture-backed company in New Orleans. That was the business. No venture funding. I think there was some like. Martin Roth: [2:50] Friends and family, very small investment.

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