TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The Founder-Developer Gap and A, B, C Players The challenges that business leaders face when assessing development teams are a good example of the Founder-Developer Gap.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stripe’s CTO, David Singleton, shares how they use a system of feedback, iteration, and fast shipping to create products that meet users’ expectations. This uses the principle of Test Driven Development, which is less focused on products with perfect codes detached from human reality but more on creating products that solve problems.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

SaaStr 636: Extreme Product Design: Building Things People Actually Use with Stripe CTO David Singleton  2. SaaStr 633: Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins with DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy                      Top Videos This Week: 1. SaaStr APAC 2023: Stage A Streaming LIVE 2.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2022

Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . In this case, our users are developers, so I would say that developer experience is the main thing. Part 1: Developer Experience.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2022

Elias Torres, CTO @ Drift. Elias Torres, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer @ Drift. Lars Nilsson, VP, Global Sales Development @ Snowflake. Robin Spencer, Chief Strategy Officer @ Clearbit. Fatima Yusuf, Director of Commercial, Ecosystem @ Shopify. Jennifer Lawrence, CRO @ Expel.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The final speakers and sessions are: David Singleton, CTO of Stripe. And a great “Revenue Confidential” session where you can ask the tough questions no one ever gets to ask CROs and VPs of Sales, with Sam Blond, former CRO of Brex, Ashley Kelly, VP of Sales Development at Rippling, and Ben Braverman, former CRO of Flexport.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? Most software developers are skeptical.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners.

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2023

Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. What Your Job Is (And What It Isn’t) Your Job is to Make the Company Win A CTO may imagine their primary job is to provide technical expertise, lead engineers, and help build the product.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Are you a developer coming to SaaStr Annual 2020 but afraid there might be not quite enough content for you? 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. The post Developers and Engineers!

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

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SaaStr

MAY 20, 2020

He joined StubHub as CTO, but didn’t get nearly as much equity as the other CTO — because he “wasn’t committed enough.” VCs didn’t think developers would buy anything. A deep dive on how to sell, how to sell to developers, how to expand products and markets, and much more.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Do you participate in professional development workshops, or perhaps enjoy problem-solving puzzles in your downtime? To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Including: CEO Snowflake CEO HubSpot CEO DropBox CEO Descript CEO Clio CEO Flock Safety CEO Own CRO ServiceTitan CMO Databricks CMO Infinite Reality CTO Rubrik CCO Canva CCO Bill CCO GitHub VP AI Wiz CEO Calendly and 100s more!! Investor Connections and Funding Opportunities — And $5m AI VC Pitch Stage!!

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. Common Signs You Need a Technical Review We’ve already mentioned the most common signs that you might need a technical review: Slow or late delivery: “I’ve authorized two new developers, and we’re still behind.”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. David considers product to be its own department that should also report directly to the CEO, instead of falling under the CTO. CTO (40 Employees). CTO (114 Employees). Series A (~ 50 Employees).

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TechEmpower SaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas This has significantly reduced the time team members spend searching for information, enabling them to stay focused on their core tasks.

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Infinicept

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

New Role Extends Infinicept’s Leadership in Embedded Payments and Drives Advancements in Embedded Finance DENVER – February 9, 2023 – Infinicept, a leading provider of embedded payments, today announced that it has appointed Anne-Jeanette LeBell as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.

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Stax

APRIL 24, 2025

As Chief Technology Officer at Stax, Mark’s at the forefront of artificial intelligence in the industry. His expertise provides a unique window into the cutting-edge developments shaping the future of payments. Ever wondered how AI is shaping the world of payments?

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USIO

JUNE 28, 2024

is committed to empowering businesses to build powerful enterprise grade applications without the need for extensive coding expertise,” said Ben Hubbard, CTO at ues.io. to empower their users with a secure and efficient payment solution,” said Chris Ross, Director, Partner Development at Usio. Through this partnership, ues.io

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strong, but not at crazy levels of some developer apps. CEO Spencer Skates owns 8.5%, CTO Curtis Liu 8.0%. Folks come out differently here, but while Amplitude charges per volume, in part, it doesn’t make a material amount from overages. Rather, it uses overage events to trigger a call from sales to buy more. #4.

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) play a critical role in steering technology-driven businesses and tech startups towards success. From keeping pace with ever-evolving technologies to leading development teams effectively, the responsibilities of a CTO are multifaceted.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. In other words, they got first-hand experience of the pains of software development. JFrog offered 11.6 million shares at $44 each and they spiked about 47% — putting the market cap at $6.6

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SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mike Wiacek, CEO at Stairwell, Mo Jebrini, CTO at Mashvisor, and Michael Ermolenko, CTO at Inworld.ai, discuss with Helene Ambiana, Global SMB and Startups Marketing Director at Google Cloud, how they overcame the hurdles of scaling and reached their goals. . Balance feedback with your vision.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2020

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon wrote about how Amazon uses cloud data lakes to operate their business. Various roles in your organization, like data scientists, data engineers, application developers, and business analysts, can access data with their choice of analytic tools and frameworks.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 3, 2021

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. The first line was, ‘With almost three decades in technology,’” he told me. At the same time, this is an area that has been underserved from a technological solution set.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) play a critical role in steering technology-driven businesses and tech startups towards success. From keeping pace with ever-evolving technologies to leading development teams effectively, the responsibilities of a CTO are multifaceted.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2024

Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft, framed the opportunity in AI this way : work on problems that used to be impossible, but are now really hard. Most companies typically hire account executives & development reps at $15k or greater in contract value because the economics of lower ACVs aren’t viable for most.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2020

My CTO and dev team is building all the features we need. “Why Do I Need a VP of Business Development? Either way, we come to this conclusion on our own. I Need a VP of Sales. But I’ve found many great SaaS founders take longer, too long, to decide to hire the other VPs. “ Why do I need a VP of Product?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Tips: to manage OKRs, and KPIs with ease with Kashinath Kadaba Shrish, Cofounder & CTO at Fitbots Leveraging new age AI technologies(GPT and NLP) to increase Organic Traffic using Scalenut with Saurabh Wadhawan, CoFounder at Scalenut What are the best marketing channels for SaaS B2B businesses?

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2020

OK, I know many great developers are architects. And I do think there’s definitely room for one architect in your start-up: one to step up as your CTO or VPE. If you hire an architect as an individual contributor developer … that never seems to work out. This can change for companies with 60-100+ developers.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. The definition of CTO is so broad and that’s what I like about this role! Go Yankees!

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Full stack developers are a coveted breed. We are glad to share a list of 22 leading full stack developers you must follow in 2022 to stay in touch with the latest trends and developments in the SaaS and IT spaces. #1 Since 1999, John Sonmez has been a highly popular blogger and speaker devoted to helping developers.

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