SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

And during my time there, one of my close friends and mentors, his name is Steve Carpenter, gave me a nudge and said, “Hey man, when are you leaving?” Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. And so, I got to just grow up, if you want to put it that way. ” And I’m like, “What are you talking about?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. Karl Sun: It’s important to bring people in who care about mentoring and working with a great team and not just telling these people what to do but getting their buy in, getting their feedback. That’s part of the culture within the company. Karl Sun: Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

At one point, I was very fortunate that, um, the CTO of our business, Tom Janowski, um, ultimately became, like, My I said my work husband and right hand partner, and it’s unusual, I think, to have the CRO right in the CTO very closely aligned. Like our CTO did it. It’s hard, but it was a long term bet, right?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He’s an advisor. 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. You have to be the strategic advisor. What is it?

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