CTO Coach Startup Underperforming Technical Team 
SaaStr
MARCH 8, 2025
Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. In 2014, Atiyah co-founded Parabus, a consumer-focused startup that automatically secured refunds when prices dropped on online purchases. “It’s like playing poker,” Atiyah explains.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 14, 2018
Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I was working with a bunch of different companies and teams of all different sizes. Laura: Exactly.
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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? Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 24, 2021
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. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 5, 2022
After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.
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.
Kellblog
APRIL 4, 2021
The CEO said to the CTO as we were leaving, “spend the $9M anyway.” We are team members in an organization, after all. Your investors and advisors will have plenty of opinions but if you end up buried, you will be buried alone. Unlike your VCs and advisors, you have but one life to give for your company [3].
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