SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

hiring in-house talent). “The initial appeal was just how easy it was to work with the system,” CTO and Cofounder David Heinemeier Hansson said, “that we knew rates were up to date and we were billing our customers for the right rates and we could defend that when we were submitting our paperwork.”

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

It’s not all technical. As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. He is also a board member for the New Technical Fund whose mission is to fund organizations that enrich people with skills using new technical methods. Check it out.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. Or, if you do ask for a three year contract, have some terms in there that show that you’re going to prove ROI. Down the road, you can say, “ I demand a two year contract. You would approach it by hiring more people.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Adam is a master of building 0-1 and an incredible product and design leader, having cofounded Monospace and most recently served as a founding member of the Amazon Explore team. The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer).

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl structure the hiring process today?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Viviana Faga, Investor & Advisor @ Coda. Eva Pittas, CoFounder @ Laika. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad.

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