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NEW SaaStr Annual Speakers! CEO Gitlab, CEO + CTO Gusto, CBO Perplexity and More

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CEO Gitlab, CEO + CTO Gusto, CBO Perplexity and More appeared first on SaaStr. I mean, about as good as it gets! The post NEW SaaStr Annual Speakers!

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower SaaS

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. A CTO can help you find the right answers. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap. It might be.

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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

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Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. Back in 2021 though, Ramp was just 2 years in — but already experiencing hypergrowth.

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6 Of The Most Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Pitching VCs

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Not having a great CTO. No one wants to fund a “great business guy” without an A+ CTO there as well. #6. Claiming you have no competition. Everyone does, at least for budget. This makes you look less than savvy about your market. #5. It’s just too competitive today. Not growing quickly enough.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy for the future.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Fractional CTO – TechEmpower

TechEmpower SaaS

A Fractional CTO bridges the gap between founders and developers to help keep your tech strategy aligned with your business goals. This helps your startup stay agile and competitive in a fast-paced marketplace.

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Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?

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Back in the day, my CTO just wanted 3 tiers: entry level, top IC, manager. Equity varied a lot more, but I know it was important to my CTO that everyone on his team felt like equal stakeholders, relative to experience. In general, I find most start-ups want to keep engineering comp fairly flat. That was it.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

Whether you're a seasoned CTO or an industry trailblazer, this webinar will help make your product ready to meet the competition by adopting an architecture that is optimized for innovation. Many do this by simply replicating their current architectures in the cloud.

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Your Team's Pragmatic Guide to Security

Speaker: Naresh Soni, CTO, Tsunami XR

We are excited to be joined by a CTO who is an expert in pragmatic choices around security. Naresh Soni, CTO of Tsunami XR, will take us through critical information to make smart choices in how to protect our organizations. He will cover: Types of vulnerabilities that need to be your focus today.

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services, and Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek

Join Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC DHHS, and Chief Technology Officer, SolonTek, to learn how you can capitalize on your ideas by blending internal with external while leveraging them into a cohesive strategy for both the short term and the long term. What value do you see in your data?