Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random. Again…Why? Maybe because it’s harder for them. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. Rob May being the founder and CEO of the company, and a great mentor for me. Like my CTO, Eric, he’s like, “Dude, I got it all. We’re on iTunes.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). Speaker, Author, Advisor, and Product Discovery Coach. Mentor, Advisor, Speaker, and Influencer. She understands the importance of having a compelling user interface and having a dynamic PLG strategy in today’s uber-competitive SaaS space.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

Why You Should Follow Gary: With video content that delivers day after day, Gary sounds off on the latest trends, serving as a weathervane for the digital community, as well as informational videos about leadership and self-care. Why Larry is Successful: Founder and former CTO of WordStream, Larry has tenured experience in the digital realm.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this. Our Chief Revenue officer, another one of our senior leadership lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. 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.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This time I met up with Lisa Campbell, Chief Marketing Officer at Autodesk, to talk about leadership, the most underrated superhero, and the thing that’s always in her pocket. Early in my career, I had a mentor who always said, “Your team is everything.” ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

Chorus records, transcribes, and analyzes business conversations in real time to coach reps on how to become top performers. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. It takes a good manager, and good leadership, colleagues, and peers. Now of course, we want to thank our sponsors.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

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. Take a look at her career advice on finding the right RevOps job. Jen Spencer , CRO, Smartbug Media.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It’s not like I just go … I can’t just go to my CTO and go, “Do that,” and he goes, “Yep. Jason Lemkin: Let me just hear you as a mentor give us these four takeaways. .” And everybody goes, “Yep, we’re going to go do that.” I’m going to go do that.”

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

You need to convince key stakeholders – particularly organizational leadership – that your budget is justified. CIO/CTO: Integrations and implementation. What is the overall value of this investment?

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Product Leadership. By Andy Johns (Advisor and Investor at Unusual Ventures) and Matt Greenberg (CTO at Reforge, former VP Engineering at Credit Karma).

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Payrix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Ian Hillis So, on the topic of the software providers, I’m putting my software, CEO, CPO, CTO hat on. I am busy. I’ve got competing priorities, and to be totally honest with you, PCI probably isn’t on the top of my list that I’m thinking about on a day-to-day basis.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

However, given her CS background, Gabby never envisioned herself becoming a CEO, as she explained during her keynote session, “ The new ‘C’ in CEO ” at ChurnZero’s Customer Success Leadership Summit, BIG RYG. Q: In your career, did you actively seek out coaches, sponsors, and mentors?

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. I’ve seen what the impact of having good leadership and management can have on me, but also what bad leadership can have on me emotionally, mentally, and my ability to build generational wealth for my family.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. The definition of CTO is so broad and that’s what I like about this role! What does it feel like to be a female CTO?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I get inspired by finding people who come into their own world, who learn how to manage teams, who handle complex projects—I love to give them advice and coaching, and to really delegate hard tasks to them and let them take off and run with them. Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz. What’s the best part of your job? Growing leaders.

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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. What got you interested in taking the executive leadership path?

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Talk to the people at the DevOps coalface Senior leadership in large and small organisations often fails to comprehend the nature and scale of the challenges and frustrations faced by those at the coalface. Help team members find mentors they can trust. Encourage & create multi-disciplinary teams to help build trust.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That’s pretty wild if you think about it, but the source of the problem is quite clear to me: CMOs are failing to build trust with their CEOs and leadership teams. Marketing Consultant As a marketing consultant , I’ve played roles ranging from strategic advisor to independent contributor to interim head of marketing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. Originally entering the market with a telematics product, their expanding suite now includes AI-driven safety and driver coaching tools. A lot of Samsara’s early sales leaders, sales reps, and a lot of engineers all liked working together.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

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. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

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 I would say that’s a leadership failure for a lot of CEOs, right? So he’s the CTO? They don’t have an agenda.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 24, 2022

The word – C-Suite connotes the highest leadership position in an organization. The C-Suite members are the core leadership group of a company who lead the different departments in an organization. One way to do it is by looking out for opportunities to showcase your thought leadership. What is C-Suite?

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The hot topic that is running around in the SaaS industry is the need for customer success to have a seat and a voice at the leadership table. Thanks to their extensive experience coaching and interacting with customers, CS teams have an exclusive perspective as they are on the frontlines of the customer-company relationship.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Some just needed a coach. Transcript: [background music]. Even BlackLine.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Sam Taylor: On my first leadership role, I was the first enterprise sales rep, a manager of mid-market team. 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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin. And I think also why Peyton Manning was such a great football player, Tony Dungy his first coach with the Colts, he could audible so well because he was so well prepared. And don’t use recruiters.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies. Leadership matters irrespective of the size of the organization. What first time founders need to understand about leadership. The differences between good and bad leadership.

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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. This really takes a shift from the leadership perspective as well.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He’s not necessarily interested in putting in the work that’s necessary or getting the coaching or the feedback that he needs. I really try to never lose a game of chicken. Therese Tucker: Turned out I liked it. Turned out it became who I am. I’m also a serial entrepreneur.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

And so I quickly raised my hand and said this is an awesome opportunity for me to get sales leadership experience, but also get the expat experience, which at that time I looked at as something incredibly valuable for me. So I found myself in London, a one of one employee introducing this new brand to advertising agencies in Europe.

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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. Harry : You mentor a lot of young companies today.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Or do you find if you’re even talking or mentoring the companies that they’re sort of going through these sort of ideas? Jonathan : So do you think this is different because this is different point of time then? This idea of stretching the dollar, do think that’s applicable now? And it doesn’t mean that you do everything they tell you to do.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer). He is also a Partner and MarTech Teacher at Reforge, as well as a MarTech Advisor and GTM Investor at HBE Ventures.

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