Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. I’m Travis Bryant.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wouldn’t it take away from allowing managers to manage and coach — not to mention the monstrous to-do lists of VPs and CEOs? Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director. Third, review the critical areas where reps may need the most support.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. Sima Banijamali – Sr. Laura Erdem : “I started working in a call centre when I was at university. I knew nothing about tech.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? Start by creating a new account from clicking the button New on the top-right. If spending $20,000 meant 200 new customers, spending $25,000 would result in 250.

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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. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. 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. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

What Lilach is Known For: As a coach who believes in the power of positive thinking, Lilach is known for helping businesses go from zero to 60 through her unique strategies and exercises. Why Rand is Successful: Rand speaks frankly and with humor, as shown in his book Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Guide to the Startup World.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

He was a VP of product at a series D startup, so a little bit ahead of us and we just had a real connection. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this. This was a problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. Chorus records, transcribes, and analyzes business conversations in real time to coach reps on how to become top performers. The first is Chorus.ai.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I was working with a company that … Because people will write big checks today into early stage companies, where someone came in very early and gave an early startup $50 million too early, and just started telling them how to raise the company, immediately told them to go buy competitors, which they’re not ready for.

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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 is the biggest challenge?

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 26, 2018

Many technology roles, at startups in particular, have an issue with career progression. Engineering, being the largest and oldest function in technology companies, now has a well defined individual contributor and manager career path all the way up to VP Engineering and CTO. So, how does data science differ?

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. A couple weeks into my summer internship at Netscape, I met a guy named Mike McCue who really became my mentor at Netscape. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We launched REGIE, our product, back in February, but we’re releasing the new and improved REGIE now. Just prior to Sapper, my job was basically to go in and be the head of sales at a different startup. I go to the 500th floor of this enormous edifice in New York, and I walk in. This guy is a mental toughness coach.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. So talking about hiring your first VP of Sales is obviously everybody knows the stat about what percentage of startups fail. What percentage of startups ultimately will not make it? Anybody want to share that?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. 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. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

and a New Era in Sales Tech Last week, we unveiled Operator , the first company incubated within GTMfund, alongside the announcement of a $3.6 The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer). Interested to learn more, click here.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Today I wanted to talk to you about something a little bit unconventional, which is around doing M&A, as a startup yourself. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. My name is Teddie Wardi.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? So when I moved back to the states, moved to Utah, and actually met my cofounder who was still a student at the time, and Ben had built the first version of Lucidchart because he needed the product at his previous startup. What works?

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. 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. This is not new. So what is new? This is marketing.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Vlad: So what’s the new reality? So we needed to kind of get the new mindset going.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How Cynthia came up with the idea of a startup incubator. She is currently on the verge of starting a new FinTech startup which will be her fifth but she has built close to 100 startups for other people over the years. What first time founders need to understand about leadership. Connect with Natalie on Facebook.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth. 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

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. As you know, I’ve spoken to many of our mutual friends in the VC, in the startup ecosystem. It’s that simple. Yousuf Khan: Yes.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally. The article also emphasizes the importance of big ideas, patience, resilience, and support within the ecosystem for the success of Latin American startups.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely.

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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. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Zvi has leadership experience across a wide range of organizations, from his various fledgling startups to large national military organizations. He co-founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution acquired by Wave Systems. I’m really curious to learn about new technologies that allow us to move faster.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Paul made his way into the world of startups with Twitter and Slack and how that led to his founding SaaS company, Balsa. Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools.

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