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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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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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Everything Founders Should Know About AI, Pricing, and Funding with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin 

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At last week’s Workshop Wednesday, we brought back one of our most highly requested sessions: an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. Is SaaS dead right now?

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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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