Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. At the enterprise level, discounting SaaS contracts is expected, not optional. Startup Tips for Enterprise Software Pricing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

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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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. While he has worked mostly in iOS and apps, he’s also dabbled in marketing, too — Andy’s had a hand in building almost every part of the Buffer website! ” 6. ” 12.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

However, as the company grew, their systems started to fail all the time, prompting the team to re-think their approach and look for a scalable solution. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. Click To Tweet. Pick each piece individually.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. The very first few sales hire are I would say not your typical reps. Laura Bilazarian : Awesome.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

The Open Source project around our code started in 2014 and has been growing ever since. Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. We have received over 2.6k GitHub stars and seen thousands of fixes. But mostly our members help each other, and it works like a charm.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. series A round in December 2014 (60% was from Collaborative Fund) Bought out main series A investors (representing $2.3M in debt to buy out their investors.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

However, as the company grew, their systems started to fail all the time, prompting the team to re-think their approach and look for a scalable solution. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. Tweet this quote.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And the wave we’re riding at G2, the wave we’re all riding here at Saster is this fourth industrial revolution which really means everything in business is being automated and companies rather than hiring people they are now automating everything.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. And so the timing and opportunity just aligned and here I am. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. I was super excited by it.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

My journey started working with well-known brands such as VISA and TomTom, and since 2014 I started gradually moving to the world of startups and scaleups. What we are seeing is that often there are companies with 2 co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and marketing is often left behind.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Because it was 2014, 2015, and he’s having Mark Roberge in the early days of HubSpot before they went public. Let’s go hire somebody. Okay, now you got to go figure out how to hire and who to hire. and like boy is that, a lifelong pursuit of learning how to hire well, I still haven’t figured it out.

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