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. (And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ).

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 21, 2021

Last year, our CEO David Politis sat down for a wide-ranging chat with Bharat Mediratta, CTO of Dropbox. In 2016, Walt Mossberg wrote an article for The Verge in which he argued that Slack beats email, but still needs to get better. “At As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 12, 2019

Does a new senior member have the right to challenge a historical decision made by a junior developer? We needed a CTO. If the challenges around hiring a senior developer late in the game are high, hiring a CTO can be even tougher. But we can hire 3 x junior developers for the cost of a CTO!” Let’s talk about the CTO.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. Historically, Slack relied heavily on virality for its growth. And it was very successful.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s the kind of notoriety that is leading to a wave of consumption pricing for new software companies and causing established companies to consider whether they too should switch to a usage-based model. Or is it just today’s pricing flavor-of-the-month?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. For example, I can give input on the data base schema if I want to, or if I have a strong opinion, but the CTO or the tech lead makes that final call. Laura: I’m glad you asked, because my CTO currently lives in Hawaii.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Jeff Lawson began his career as Founder, CEO and CTO of Versity.com, a venture he embarked on part way through his time at the University of Michigan. Keep your eyes peeled as we unveil the list and a bit more about your favorite leaders.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. SaaS pricing is one of the most important (but difficult) decisions a new business makes.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 million apiece. The iPhone was an amazing step forward, not because it brought forth a faster CPU or a better digital network.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. And we were acting as the CTO of Gap and whatever, another title.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. TWO NEW COMPANIES PLOT THEIR COURSE. Further Reading We Spent $3.3M

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth. So I found myself in London, a one of one employee introducing this new brand to advertising agencies in Europe.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to their IPO in 2016, Twilio had raised over $250m in VC funding from some of the best in venture including USV, Bessemer, Salesforce and Techstars just to name a few. Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Just to name a few.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. When we were acquired in 2016, it was about 30,000 employees. In this case, the customer are your new colleagues. What measurements should be used to determine their success?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? Paul Rosania: I think my stock line post-2016 is, “Forgive us, we knew not what we were doing at the time.” People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work.

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