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Speak's Andrew Hsu on the CTO's Role in AI Tooling Adoption

Crafty CTO

The Latent Space podcast had an excellent interview with Andrew Hsu , cofounder and CTO at AI-generation language learning platform Speak. And in hiring, we are now explicitly asking about this a lot, thinking about what are the types of people that are going to be better, higher agency at trying these types of tools.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Learnings from Mary Meeker’s Latest Report on AI

SaaStr

China Is Playing a Different Game Entirely The Models Youve Barely Heard Of: DeepSeek R1: 93% performance of OpenAI’s o3-mini at fraction of training cost Alibaba Qwen 2.5-Max: China views AI supremacy as essential to geopolitical leadership. AI use will be part of what we evaluate in performance reviews.

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Implementing AI – The Top Down Approach Is Failing!

Go Hire- Saas

As a former Senior ERP Business Consultant implementing global enterprise solutions for Fortune 500 companies like Dole Foods, Chevron, Lexmark, WL Gore, and Gateway 2000 (remember the cow boxes), I think we need to re-asses that strategy and mindset. Effective AI Implementations are Bottom-Up, but require Top-Down Leadership!

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GTM 134: When to Hire Your First Sales Reps (And How to Get It Right) with Joe DiMento

Sales Hacker

Discussed in this Episode: When to hire your first account executives Key traits to look for in early sales hires Structuring compensation for first sales reps Should you ‘hire the buyer’ to be your sales rep? 31:55 Hiring for grit, curiosity & determination. What does Joe look like at that time?

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Fractional CTO Services Explained

Valerian Tech

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis.

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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin 

SaaStr

They hire a VP of Sales who doesn’t want to sell or learn the product. You also don’t want to hire a VP of Sales who won’t carry a bag. If you joined a startup at $2M and wanted to get to $6M with reps doing $400k, that VP of Sales would need to hire ten reps. 90% of the time, sales falls when a founder steps out of it.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. Obviously, I can’t imagine a chief executive not having loss of sleep over building a management team. Mallun : Sure.