Kellblog

APRIL 4, 2021

The CEO said to the CTO as we were leaving, “spend the $9M anyway.” A founder — because in their mind it’s their company — will make up their own mind about what’s best for the company and potentially travel in another dimension, like up or down. They apologize for missed quarters or bad hires.

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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.”

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Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people. With the full BOOK of instructions, we get busy hiring.

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Mattermark

AUGUST 23, 2017

Our CTO Kevin says: “It’s like the beginning of people’s imagination with computer games, which is awesome.” Karolis at Zeus reached out to let us know they’re hiring! Hiring for: Senior Software Engineer (Full stack). In their own words: We’re a small group of 14.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 11, 2020

We were days away from signing a big contract with an AV vendor to rehab the cafe space that we had to put on pause. It sounds really lame, but probably travel. Want more insights on how you can support a remote workforce in constantly changing times? How about from your team’s perspective? That’s great advice.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I did some traveling and ended up going to New York City. Through Mucker, I met my CTO and co-founder, Taylor Bayouth. We’ve been hiring and really growing the team, and we’ll continue to do so. After two years, I left. I took some courses in digital arts and realized I’m a creative person. That’s what I needed.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And the wave we’re riding at G2, the wave we’re all riding here at Saster is this fourth industrial revolution which really means everything in business is being automated and companies rather than hiring people they are now automating everything.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

When I was a couple of years into my tenure at Oracle, I moved down to Latin America to Argentina, sight unseen actually, and built out a telesales group in Argentina and then later in Miami, hiring about 100 people from 11 different countries and that early building experience really whet my appetite. I came back to North America.

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Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 208

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He is the chief revenue officer of a company called ADARA, a data cooperative focused on the travel and discretionary spending space, so we’ll dig into that. Obviously COVID has really caused some constraints in travel, and so that requires us to kind of expand the addressable market that we’re approaching.

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Payment Features Subscription Scale Underperforming Technical Team 117

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Jonathan : Travel. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? We just stayed the course, but we did and do have a recurrent revenue model, we had predictable revenues, we weren’t maybe hiring as fast as we would have otherwise, but we never had to lay off.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules. They think about the hours in the office, and they think about the business travel. So, that’s effectively what we’re working on.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO. So a good example I had was I remember trying to explain to the CTO that [00:21:00] we needed like a process. Uh, and we’re going through a hiring cycle for a new associate right now. But events are hard now because we don’t need to travel anymore.

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