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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Gusto CEO, RevenueCat CTO, Intercom CEO, Notion CRO, and More!

SaaStr

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Be Careful Hiring “Dualies” — Folks That Are a VP of More Than One Thing. SaaStr 565: Classic Episode: The Importance of Company Values, a Great Hiring Process, and Ownership Culture with Gusto Co-Founder & CEO Josh Reeves.

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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. More like this at 2022 SaaStr Annual, Sep 13-15 in SF Bay Area!!

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Samsara S-1: How 7 Key Benchmarks Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded by Sanjit Biswas, former CEO at Meraki and John Bicket former CTO at Meraki[link] Samsara builds software to manage physical operations: truck fleets, mining, food & beverage, oil & gas. in revenue in fiscal year 2020, to $432m in the first three quarters of fiscal 2022. But these contracts produce compelling economics.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Point Nine Managing Partner, Shippo CEO, Front CEO, Gusto CEO

SaaStr

The Ultimate Guide for Hiring a Great VP of Sales. Top Podcasts This Week: SaaStr 568: Mind the Gap: Balancing Growth and Efficiency in Tougher Times with Point Nine Managing Partner Christoph Janz. SaaStr 566: 16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin. Dear SaaStr: How Many Sales Reps Do I Need?

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

SaaStr

So we took our learnings from our first successful outdoor event and brought back SaaStr Europa in 2022. And now, SaaStr is turning 10 right as we gear up for SaaStr Annual 2022. total attendees, e.g., a CEO + a VP of Sales and a VP of Customer Success, or two Co-Founders, or CEO + CTO, etc. But thankfully, everyone LOVED it.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

At the end of Day 3 of SaaStr Annual 2022, Jason opened up the mic for an AMA. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO. Then I was the CTO at another YC company, Standard Treasury, acquired by Silicon Valley Bank.

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Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social. ‘Just Build’ with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

The message in 2022 was to keep going. Deals are contracting, not because of layoffs, but because people are managing budgets so tightly. It Takes Time To Bounce Back Jason was the first investor in RevenueCat , a company that automates mobile subscriptions on your phone. Just build. Because they have over 10,000 B2B2C apps.

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