CTO Hire Underperforming Technical Team Venture Capital 
SaaStr
JULY 28, 2021
My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Frankly, we got some bad advice from VCs in the early days. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. We’ll dispense with that right away. It happened three years ago.
Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Are they hiring?
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Ophelia Brown | Founder, Partner @ Blossom Capital. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Evgenia Plotnikova | Principal @ Dawn Capital. Christina Fonseca | Venture Partner @ Indico Partners (moderator). I’m the founder of Blossom Capital.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. ” And we closed five or six inside deals in a very short period of time.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 5, 2022
After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.
Kellblog
APRIL 4, 2021
The CEO said to the CTO as we were leaving, “spend the $9M anyway.” We are team members in an organization, after all. They apologize for missed quarters or bad hires. Founders own the team. After much wrangling, the board agreed that we should spend $8M. The meeting adjourned shortly thereafter.
Outseta
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. The company even took $2.5M
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