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You Won’t Know Most of Your 10x Hires Are That Good on Day 1

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So Auren Hoffman did a SaaStr workshop a few years back that was one of my favorites, I’ve embedded it below. He made many great leadership points, but one in particular rattles around my head a lot and I think deserves its own post: You usually won’t know if you’ve made a 10x hire … when you make the hire. months later.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Cloudflare’s CRO, Figma’s VP of Sales, Workshop Wednesday, Brex’s GM of Startups and more!

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Ode to the $100,000,000 Exit Dear SaaStr: Should You Hire Someone That Seems Good … But Always Job Hops? SaaStr 636: Extreme Product Design: Building Things People Actually Use with Stripe CTO David Singleton  5. LIVE Workshop Wednesday with ICONIQ: Building Resilience through Efficient Scaling in 2023 4. TAM is Great.

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The Top 10 Reasons to Attend 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

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200+ dedicated workshops and braindates with the best in SaaS, Cloud and AI, from intimate small sessions to 20-50 person workshops from the best Our CRO + CEO Poker Night where we bring 200 top revenue leaders together with CEOs and founders of B2B / AI companies attending Our 4th annual CMO Summit for top CMOs and the CEOs that want to meet them!

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: UiPath’s CEO and Founder, SaaStr’s CEO, Stage A and Workshop sessions from SaaStr Europa, and lots more!

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Answers from the CEOs of Twilio, Veeva, Amplitude, HubSpot, Gainsight and More What Your First 100 Hires Will Look Like Top Podcasts This Week: 1. What You Need to Change at $10M to Scale to $100M: Sameer Dholakia, Partner Bessemer (Workshop Wed) 3. Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder 2.

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Leadership Learnings: 5 Things I Wish I Could Have Told My 2013 Self With Advisor and Former CTO of Heap Dan Robinson (Pod 663 + Video)

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Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. Register for SaaStr Annual and join 12,500 Cloud and SaaS Founders, VCs, and Execs at SaaStr Annual for three full days of workshops, sessions, and networking — all to help you scale faster.

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Developers and Engineers! Here’s everything you CAN’T miss at this year’s Annual.

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From large scale mainstage sessions to intimate workshops and even a dedicated lounge, we are carving out some of SaaStr Annual just for developers and engineers. ” When to Hire and When to Automate” with Zapier CEO Wade Foster. Have no fear, we have got you covered.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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We had Lew Cirne, Founder & CEO of New Relic, Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot and for the first time at Annual, we added office hours with the top VCs in SaaS. total attendees, e.g., a CEO + a VP of Sales and a VP of Customer Success, or two Co-Founders, or CEO + CTO, etc.

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