2016 CTO Hire Scaling 
SaaStr
JULY 14, 2022
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. 2016 The Second SaaStr Annual: From Impossible to Inevitable .
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. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a 7, if you round up from 6.3.
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Intercom, Inc.
JULY 21, 2022
What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.
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.
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. When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. million apiece. Calendars are broken.
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. Product Strategy for Scale: Pricing. At the enterprise level, discounting SaaS contracts is expected, not optional.
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. Wistia is certainly not the first tech company to suffer from over-scaling, but their story is both unique and illuminating for a number of reasons. of the $3.5M
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