SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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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? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. Before Kubernetes, DevOps teams were confined to assembling their own container orchestration and management solutions.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. I’m not a lawyer, I’m actually an engineer by classical training, and it’s been a fun and interesting ride to work with this community. Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

It is focused on making collaboration between developers and operations engineers (ops) easier, faster, and safer. After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. It's very hard for PLG to be the only or main motion with infrastructure products because it's not something one engineer will just test and buy. Once you have that, you can begin to acquire some new users.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Harry Stebbings: What are you expecting from AWS this year? You’re in Vegas as we speak.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. I was an engineer. I was working as an engineer. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. Dharmesh is the.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? 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. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will their comp change?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. I was an engineer. I was working as an engineer. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. Dharmesh is the.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” Or, my favorite, I’m new, this is my first time. This was a big lesson learned.

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