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Leadership Learnings: 5 Things I Wish I Could Have Told My 2013 Self With Advisor and Former CTO of Heap Dan Robinson (Pod 663 + Video)

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Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. What Your Job Is (And What It Isn’t) Your Job is to Make the Company Win A CTO may imagine their primary job is to provide technical expertise, lead engineers, and help build the product.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: UiPath’s CEO and Founder, SaaStr’s CEO, Stage A and Workshop sessions from SaaStr Europa, and lots more!

SaaStr

Answers from the CEOs of Twilio, Veeva, Amplitude, HubSpot, Gainsight and More What Your First 100 Hires Will Look Like Top Podcasts This Week: 1. SaaStr 666: Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder Daniel Dines  2. Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder 2.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. Teams saw on another in-person instead of behind a screen for the first time.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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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. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2013 to $115.9 ” We didn’t do any annual contracts. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big! A SaaStr Classic!!

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Gaetan Gachet : So myself, I joined the company back in 2013. I was the second employee at the time, the first one in a non-technical role. So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. Okay, cool.

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

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Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. Adam Farmer, Senior Escalations Manager & Customer Experience Lead 📍Started at Buffer in November 2013 as a Happiness Hero 🌎 Location: Florida, U.S.   4. Åsa ” 5. ” 12.