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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Chances of a Startup CEO Getting Fired?

SaaStr

So, if you don’t raise money and bring on any outside Directors, there is usually no one who can fire the CEO , unless the other cofounders get together, vote themselves the majority of the board, and then fire the CEO. So the other cofounders can sometimes fire you, but that’s about it. That’s different, and more common.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

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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11 Signs To Predict If a Venture Investment Will or Won’t Work Out

SaaStr

5+ cofounders can work (I think of that as too many cooks, but now I see it can work). Cofounder conflict. But now I’ve seen many unicorns make it even with significant cofounder conflict in the early and middle days. Great CEO But Mediocre CTO. A mediocre CTO can’t keep up. It works for Atlassian.

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SaaStr Enterprise is LIVE! Watch it here

SaaStr

Juggling People, Processes & Priorities: CTO Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines. Cofounder, CEO. Tarik Faouzi. Rose Nuñez. Channel Management. IBM. [link]. 9:00 – 9:50AM. Marianna Tessel. Intuit. [link] . 9:00 – 9:20AM. How to Design and Build a SaaS Platform Pressure Tested for the Enterprise. Catherine Wong.

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a16z Pod: How the Passion Economy Is Redefining Work

Andreessen Horowitz

Patreon cofounder and CTO Sam Yam and a16z consumer tech partner Li Jin join host Lauren Murrow to talk about the Passion Economy: the rise of online platforms that enable people to make a living off their unique interests and.

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Product Power Breakfast #2: Thomas Interviews Dave

Kellblog

A surprise cameo from Dharmesh Shah , cofounder and CTO of HubSpot (who I think Jason pulled up [1]) — thanks for coming! While it was definitely a romp in terms of structure (or lack thereof), it was high energy, full of great content, and fun.

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Free Software and Open Source Business

Andreessen Horowitz

In this podcast, Armon Dadgar, Cofounder and CTO of HashiCorp; Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks; … The post Free Software and Open Source Business appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Today, despite the critical importance of open source to software, it’s still seen by some as blasphemous to make money as an open source business.