Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. David: And so you’ve done it differently this time around? You’ve got to think about taxes.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Programs are 4-6 weeks in length, part-time, and held in a virtual format, guided by an executive. Product Leadership. Technical Strategy.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

April Dunford's definition: " In order to break through the noise, companies would need to take into account their own strengths and weaknesses, then contrast them with their competitors to create a unique leadership position in the minds of customers. Positioning focuses on the perceptions of the prospect not on the reality of the brand.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. In B2B, we will be stuck with AI because there’s no one to work at our companies. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. I hope so,” he continues.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. I’ve spent my whole career in B2B software. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. background music].

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He is well-known in the B2B SaaS space for his product. Alexander Theuma is the founder of SaaStock – a one-stop source for B2B SaaS companies to supercharge their growth. Dev is also a prominent speaker who helps B2B SaaS companies scale their business through demand generation strategies and solutions. Alexander Theuma.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

The transcript for this episode is below: Therese Tucker: I’ve spent my whole career in B2B software. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow. It’s an area that doesn’t get enough focus. Turned out it became who I am.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer). GTM 112: The Ultimate MarTech Guide and the Great Contraction with Austin Hay Austin Hay is the Co-Founder of Clarify, a new intelligent CRM built as a platform that developers love.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

Why PR is important for B2B companies? Many companies in B2B are sales-led, and marketing plays a secondary role. What we are seeing is that often there are companies with 2 co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and marketing is often left behind. If you have some sort of budget – I’d recommend hiring someone in-house.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Let’s hire an amazing VP of product who’s going to answer this question for us and kind of have the frameworks to do it.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Discussed in this Episode: The turnaround story of Cassie’s time at Sailthru and overcoming scaling challenges. The importance of leadership alignment and transparency during times of crisis. Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. But even with that, it was all consumer tech.

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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. We are a Boston B2B marketing software company, we are super excited and passionate about this, but we cannot outspend Facebook or Google.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I’m not going to claim to be the founder of Levelset, but that founding team, CTO, VP of customer experience, chief legal, our CFO, who kind of came later, but like that group, everyone stayed with the organization in executive roles the whole time. Let’s go hire somebody. I remember there was this podcast.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

He is a seasoned, multi-stage operator, bringing over two decades of experience in investment banking advisory, public equity investing, high-growth operational and military leadership roles. You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO. We buy B2B products all day long. I say it’s customer service.

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