Panintelligence

JUNE 7, 2024

In this blog, we asked Panintelligence CEO Zandra Moore and CTO Ken Miller what they think are some of the most frequent mistakes in SaaS development and offer actionable insights to help you steer clear of them. And the leadership needs to live by those cultural values. No one can afford to be slow to market these days.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. firms, only 18% of chief information officers or chief technology officers are women. ” Recently, myself and the Content team were discussing the different ways we could approach this important topic.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. Mallun Yen : And, you’ve done that with a number of your executive team, and, in fact, most of your executive team are the ones that you hired early on in the day.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. Bring such people into the DevOps fold, share learnings and build trust.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why? Else : “Yeah absolutely.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Why building trust with your internal team is the hallmark of great marketing leaders By Geoff Roberts The role of the modern Chief Marketing Officer is a tough one—you’d be hard pressed to name another position that requires a wider range of skills. I’ve played the following roles at various tech companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. So very, very small team.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What were his core learnings from that? *

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. So let’s talk a little bit about the near term trends you’re seeing.I’m going to start with Jay, because Jay, you described it in the prep call this proliferation of technology. And it’s a combination of things.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. We’re on iTunes.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. Her career spans nearly 25 years, and includes development skills in the full web stack, as well as the business side of the house. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies. The differences between good and bad leadership.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Then I got a call from a friend who actually was the first lawyer at Google and he was looking for someone to start the patent team there.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s how do you transition the team, how do you not loose each and every friendship that you’ve ever had?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. But the internet made it easy to find prospects, and automation allowed sales teams to reach thousands at once. The platform leverages advanced AI in a way that fundamentally changes how sales teams operate. The result?

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Back in March and April, when we were all adapting to COVID-19, I used the Mood Meter at the beginning of a bunch of my leadership team meetings because I found it was a really useful tool to open up the discussion. ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz. It’s basically a four-block framework of how people are feeling.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How have you altered and developed as a CEO do you think?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The importance of leadership alignment and transparency during times of crisis. Why executive compensation should align with key business metrics for better team alignment. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. How to rebuild and regain customer trust after technical failures.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. 35:30) Optimal team structures for SMB sales organizations. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46)

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? And so really it became a bad habit. What have been some of the challenges?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

He is a seasoned, multi-stage operator, bringing over two decades of experience in investment banking advisory, public equity investing, high-growth operational and military leadership roles. 38:33 The commoditization of technology in the age of AI. If you add any teammates in January to your team, theyll get a free month too.

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