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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

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. How do they sufficiently value and compensate an engineer’s skills in such a competitive market?

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, Wiz’s CRO, Heap’s Former CTO, and lots more!

SaaStr

SaaStr 663: 9 Things I Wish I Would Have Told My 2013 Self: Lessons Learned from 9 Years with Heap’s Former CTO, Dan Robinson  4. Lessons Learned from 9 Years at Heap with Advisor & Former CTO Dan Robinson 2. 5 Interesting Learnings from Monday.com at $640,000,000 in ARR Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

And most of our data now as a software company it’s because that’s my background, but you as a sales professional can go to RepVue and view detailed analytics about sales organizations related to compensation data. What do reps like in terms of culture, product, incentive comp structure? How many people are hitting quota?

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These 36 RevOps Leaders Have Something (Great) to Say

Sales Hacker

Compensation plans. As the founding coach for SDR Nation, she helps those early in their sales career nail their jobs and get their net promotion. His company Revenue Grid is all about moving on to the next phase in CRM- Guided Selling and Coaching. Fixing visibility issues in your sales org. Building the right tech stack.

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

SaaStr

I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this. So, I personally devote about 10%, maybe 15% of my time to mentoring young entrepreneurs, volunteering my time in co-working spaces, spending time at local universities. We had no New York city presence. This was a problem. This is never going to work.”

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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)

SaaStr

You’re probably going to maybe give them some shares in an advisor. People that can, not just from a numbers standpoint, but from a culture and mentoring standpoint. So he’s the CTO? I don’t know is he a natural mentor and coach and all that kind of stuff? They don’t have an agenda.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Casey Winters Growth Advisor at Greylock. Their goals and KPIs are unlikely to be related to metrics concerning a CTO (like application performance), but more likely related to those of a COO or CMO (like the number of qualified leads).