2016 Business CTO Hire 
SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2021
In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. 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. The problem is that he was in business school, working towards an MBA.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 21, 2022
Intercom was created out of an epiphany in a small Dublin coffee shop because we realized that the impersonal, transactional way of doing business online just wasn’t cutting it for customers anymore. Ever since the beginning, our mission has been to make internet business personal, and the podcast has played a big role in that.
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OpenView Labs
APRIL 12, 2019
Getting hiring right is absolutely critical. I’d like to talk about two different companies with two very different approaches to hiring post-seed raise. I’m focusing on engineering in these examples, but the experience applies to other areas of the business. To get the team started we hired several junior developers.
Buffer Resources
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Plus, I knew these company leaders were busy — when would I have the opportunity to pick their brains again? Thankfully, the conversations flowed, and I only had time for the question at the top of my list: “Give me one piece of advice for succeeding at Buffer.
OpenView Labs
JULY 2, 2020
After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with. Now’s the Time to Revisit Your Pricing. SaaS pricing is one of the most important (but difficult) decisions a new business makes.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 31, 2019
The experience became the inspiration for his next act after Facebook: an intelligent calendar called Woven that can cut scheduling time in half. I am the CEO of a company called Woven, which is an intelligent calendar for busy professionals, and I have spent my entire career focused on the productivity of others. million apiece.
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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