SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. Obviously, I can’t imagine a chief executive not having loss of sleep over building a management team. Mallun : Sure.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. Traditionally we’ve been around since 2005 and traditionally have been a software on-prem business.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Though our second day of the event is focused on mythical creatures of all kinds, you’ll find that there are unicorns hiding in our agenda every day this year. Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… Jean-Michel Lemieux, Shopify CTO. Here is a glimpse at just a few of our standout unicorns.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 3, 2021

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. The first line was, ‘With almost three decades in technology,’” he told me. What are some of the biggest challenges that you’d like to tackle as the company’s new CTO?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

. “Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life” Prior to that, I was the CIO of another large Fortune 500 company called KLA-Tencor, and the rest of my life has been in software engineering: building tools to help people get things done without having to do all the work. Balancing human-computer interaction.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

We tend to find that there are three key technology initiatives that we can help our customers with when they’re undergoing a digital transformation. The first is a migration to the cloud. Hire builders who are experienced, strategic, and agile. So, good luck with your hiring efforts.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As co-founder and CEO of Lottie , he has built a trusted platform that helps families easily navigate, find, and finance later-life care. His expertise spans AI, automation, and digital transformation, and he has also advised organizations at the World Economic Forum on the future of software and society.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

He likes to optimize and accelerate software development by presenting complex concepts in a simple way. Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google 279.1K Author of a JavaScript book and blog about web development, Addy Osmani is a software development buff. Co-Founder and CEO of Brave Software, Creator of JavaScript 158.9K

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform. Cloud compute spend is another form of technical debt; more on that in a future post). Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. Chris is a 20 year Silicon Valley veteran having launched the first part of his career at EMC before finding his way to Snowflake in 2013.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. You can use them the next time you need to convince your manager brand investment makes sense. Suddenly you find yourself creating your CV in the Canva software without realising it.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

RevOps is still developing as a function, so people with a lot of different experiences, like moving from engineering to marketing for example, find RevOps to be a great place to put their problem solving skills to work. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. And I had done that even before I got into B2B software, doing military electronic design, right? Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality. Show Introduction [00:10]. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.” When I decided I wanted to be a CIO or CTO , I was an associate director or what other companies might call a junior director. I’ve noticed this about software developers, but I also see it in many IT careers.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Sometimes, an AI feature is just another brick in the wall (but one that improves your product) Last week, I looked into the question if AI is a platform shift as disruptive as the move from on-premise to the Cloud. But unlike most on-premise software companies in the 2000s, the SaaS leaders of today aren’t doomed.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

If only we had figured out how to explain to people why they needed cloud storage :-(." They built an engine to find the customers that loved their product, find the features they really liked and then built their value messaging around it. They built an engine to achieve product market fit and find positioning.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 What’s their new CAC Payback Time? I personally find it surprising that a SaaS company’s forecast may often include such an expense breakdown – as it should – but the company’s actuals are a mere black box. New Gross Margins?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. How do you find it in the first place?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You also have the option of getting certificated in trending fields like AI & ML, Cloud Management, and more. RSA Conference April 24-27, San Francisco Tickets: Expo (Early Bird) – $50, Full (Early Bird) – $2045 You won’t find many better places to quench your cybersecurity thirst than the upcoming RSA Conference.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Welcome Graneet Since Pawel and Christoph’s investment in Clio (which provides legal firms best in class software to run their business and was Point Nine’s #1 investment (!!)), our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further. It’s time for beautiful cloud software to take over. Hundreds of thousands in Europe.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Over the past decade benchmarking software and SaaS companies , I’ve had the chance at OPEXEngine to work with hundreds of amazing Finance execs who work incredibly hard at getting the right data to support their company’s goals. SaaS companies tend to have more Finance headcount than traditional, non-Cloud companies.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The firm is an investor in no less than 40 companies from this year’s Cloud Top 100 list. This doesn’t mean that you’ll find all your leaders e.g. in Barcelona (where Factorial is founded and HQ’ed)?—?you’ll you’ll probably have to be remote-friendly and/or have multiple offices, in addition to trying to relocate people.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

A few weeks ago, [ CTO Jamie Tischart ] and I talked about this fork in the road that engineers typically get to where they either move into management or commit to writing code for the rest of their careers. We’re here to coach, train, and mentor the organization in how to think about software at scale.

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Crafty CTO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I was in England on business—some sort of software event in London, the details long since faded and obscured. So we set off to explore Yorkshire and find the land of All Creatures Great and Small. A directional gyro takes several minutes to spin up and stabilize, though, and we were already starting to penetrate the cloud base.

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Upscope

MAY 25, 2021

Co-browsing is software that gives an online support agent the ability to see what the customer sees, instantly and without downloads. Here's an interview with our CTO on how co-browsing technology works. This includes: Pass in identities and tags to help you find or sort users. Allow agents to see the remote console.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And unfortunately it wasn’t Larry and Sergei who we’re starting Google at the same time, but it was two other students doing something much more mundane. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. It’s in the cloud.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Software as a service or SaaS has been growing as a leading software distribution model. The world of SaaS has simplified software creation and distribution making access easier than before. Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I’ve spent my whole career in B2B software. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. BlackLine started out by building wealth management software. Transcript: [background music].

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I see it all the time, which is, you said it super well, make money, save money, reduce risk. This episode is an excerpt from Jason and Loren’s session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. Bernadette Nixon. Jay Snyder.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. And then it was just a matter of, okay, make sure that it works, make sure that it scales, then very important not to forget, make sure that people buy it, that they know how to find you, you know. Stop stretching the dollar, start compressing the time.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. 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. prem software company? I was great at it.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. How big could it get? Listen on Spotify.

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