SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Lately I’ve been working with 5+ SaaS companies all hiring their first VP of Product. And critically, most have a really strong CEO-CTO partnership. A few general learnings: A VP of Product that Reports to CTO / Engineering Rarely Meets With That Many Customers. I just see this time and time again.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2021

A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. And importantly, you need to spend more time with your existing customers (vs. But even if you’ve hired the world’s best VP of Sales … you can’t opt out of sales entirely. Add a layer. the prospects). Trust Me Here.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. But only if you do it every week at the same time and never stop. Let’s jump right into the questions.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Even this year, one of the big vendors for us quit three weeks ago. A key vendor that we’ve relied on for years. More likely than not, but barely.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Teddie Wardi’s, Principal at Insight Venture Partners, session at SaaStr Europa talked all things M&A. Teddie Wardi | Principal at Insight Venture Partners. I’m with Insight Venture Partners. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. Grab your tickets! ??. Transcript. Hi everyone.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition. We spent a lot of time and effort setting up that foundational system, making sure that our data was really good. We track everything and give credit for impressions, clicks, actual conversions, etc.

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