User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. Chasing free customer acquisition. It’s a lot about building those flows. Andrew Chen: Exactly.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Technical Review Scale Outsourcing Services 118

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general. Don’t forget the payroll’s subaccounts). Finally, add the software account.

Startup 90

Startup Merchant Services DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. 5 Sebastian Schaeffer, CTO at dofollow.io (B2B PR SaaS) says: “ Our community is primarily on Facebook and Linkedin and it has been live for over a year. We have 2592 community members now (and counting) ”.

Marketing 98

Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.” And all of a sudden they’re like, “I guess, I could hire remote.”

Sales Recruiting 219

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 219

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Since then, its culture code has been viewed more than 4 million times. In fact, that's probably better for everyone than if you found that out after they've been hired.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. 5 Sebastian Schaeffer, CTO at dofollow.io (B2B PR SaaS) says: Our community is primarily on Facebook and Linkedin and it has been live for over a year. But mostly our members help each other, and it works like a charm.

Marketing 40

Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 40

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

Trust is a big deal with customer support. One SaaStr fan asked what role company employees play with AI and providing accuracy to customers. “95% It’s challenging to find super high-quality folks unless you’re in B2C, where customer support is sales. Is the CTO involved in these decisions?

AI 299

AI Pricing Artificial Intelligence Scale 299

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. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Balancing internal growth with hiring. Sign me up.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

Businesses run on documents, Conga is changing the way the world works by modernizing, streamlining, and automating your documents, contracts, and processes to make it easier to do business. The other one is customer support. Now, before we bring you this conversation, we want to thank our sponsors. Our first sponsor is Conga.

Outsourcing Services 94

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Scale Technical Review 94

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. And so when that channel becomes unstable, it very quickly erodes customer trust. Like our CTO did it.

Scale 80

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 80