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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

Each company approaches this challenge uniquely, but there are a few features consistent in every workplace that are hard to leave. In Silicon Valley, the average tenure for an engineer is eighteen months, and one-third of new hires leave after only six months. Just as much as sheer growth, some companies must focus on engagement. #3.

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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

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You can watch the full session , and if you missed the podcast with the first half of the interview, you’ll find that here. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. What’s that going to do to your company? They hired good people.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

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Again, we felt that there was much greater value in being authentic than trying to be someone that we weren’t and try to find positives. It’s never a waste of time to find a great customer and take care of them and that’s led to frankly a lot of our success to date. This is never going to work.”

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

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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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

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And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. But I think within your own category find something that’s really going to grow inevitably with you or without you and riding that bigger wave is really what can make your startup successful. And so we find this is now a great way.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up.