Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

It distracts the team from writing new features + fixing bugs. You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. Wait… that’s bad news. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. down the road.

AWS 115

AWS DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 115

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

Engineering 178

Engineering Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 178

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

Investment 113

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 113

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? They will fall asleep thinking about your company and wake up thinking about your company, and hopefully not in a bad way, in a good way. That’s true. Deals are getting done faster than ever.

Sales Recruiting 225

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 225

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 137

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 137

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

VP of Engineering 107

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 107