Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As the co-founder and CEO of leading fintech company, OakNorth , – valued at over 1 billion – he has revolutionized lending for scale-up businesses through advanced data analytics, providing fast, flexible financing solutions for SMEs. As co-founder and CEO of Wayve , he is transforming transportation with AV2.0,

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Dee: And you’ve worked in the industry for more than 22 years, so you have an incredible insight into the expansion of cloud networks, enterprise and data center technologies. It is no better than the data that you feed into it, and it has no soul. Balancing human-computer interaction. “AI is fancy statistics.

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Stax

AUGUST 19, 2024

Neiconi brings more than 15 years of experience in risk and fraud management leadership to his new role, with a deep background in developing fraud risk solutions, risk data collection and analysis, and compliance. Stay Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Valentin Neiconi as Chief Risk Officer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful. Product can do a huge amount there.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.

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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. But keeping what you’ve got is as important as bringing in new customers. That they only want simple data insights.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. Are brand-new companies that seem epic with no revenue really worth $1.5B Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

And so, the thing that was really new about LLMs was the ability to, at extremely low cost, generate an answer instantly to any question. Adam: And so, based on all that, we landed on building Poe as a new chat-oriented AI product. We thought about, [as Quora] , what is the role that we’re going to play in this new world with AI?

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Payrix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As businesses continue to embed payment solutions into their software platforms, ensuring compliance with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) is more important than ever. These standards are designed to protect cardholders from data breaches and fraud. What is PCI DSS? Candice explains the basics of PCI DSS.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. ” That was the catalyst for me to think about leadership and management. That was very exciting to me.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: “You build it, you run it.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Regie uses AI to create inbound, outbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster using over a billion rows of performance data across 75 industries. Or which contracts say you can move this customer’s data to another infrastructure provider? Show Agenda and Timestamps.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. It takes a good manager, and good leadership, colleagues, and peers.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Engineering: Scaling Product Delivery , Technical Strategy , Engineering Management (new). Product Leadership. Engineering Programs.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

A few weeks ago, [ CTO Jamie Tischart ] and I talked about this fork in the road that engineers typically get to where they either move into management or commit to writing code for the rest of their careers. What got you interested in taking the executive leadership path? How have things like your smart camera helped people adjust?

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Healthcare companies must adhere to a myriad of regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other industry-specific guidelines. This blog will explore the challenges faced by healthcare companies in achieving regulatory compliance.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female. of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why?

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

April Dunford's definition: " In order to break through the noise, companies would need to take into account their own strengths and weaknesses, then contrast them with their competitors to create a unique leadership position in the minds of customers. My really crude definition : When I come across a new product I tend think "Wtf is this?

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. It’s about negotiation, presentation skills, leadership styles, corporate finance.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

We also have an episode of the ProfitWell Report that looks at the data from almost 2,000 companies to uncover how customer success impacts retention and churn, linked here. On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without. Here are a few teasers.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Makes It Work The success of Gorgias’ AI agents relies on several key components: First, there’s the data foundation. This comprehensive data access allows the agents to handle complex customer inquiries effectively. The rollout also introduced basic HTTP actions and went from sampling to 100% rollout for email.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That’s pretty wild if you think about it, but the source of the problem is quite clear to me: CMOs are failing to build trust with their CEOs and leadership teams. Just as a CTO may have to explain the importance of technical projects to a CEO, the CMO needs to educate the CEO on the various ways marketing can drive their business.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. I think it’s changing, and the Spencer Stuart data in Harvard Business Review show that it’s changing too. But my path was more of a meandering path.”.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

There was a real initial problem Samsara identified early on a ton of food (and money) being wasted due to old infrastructure and lack of data among the delivery fleets. Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. They’re making phone calls to figure out where people (and trucks) are.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. 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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 24, 2022

The word – C-Suite connotes the highest leadership position in an organization. The C-Suite members are the core leadership group of a company who lead the different departments in an organization. One way to do it is by looking out for opportunities to showcase your thought leadership. What is C-Suite?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

You can access the latest information, insights, trends, and data to enhance your knowledge of the latest SaaS industry developments. Asia Orangio is a SaaS expert who helps SaaS companies and start-ups to craft a data driver strategy and implement award-winning marketing strategies to win the audience. Asia Orangio. contact-form-7].

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

and a New Era in Sales Tech Last week, we unveiled Operator , the first company incubated within GTMfund, alongside the announcement of a $3.6 Contact data became a commodity, and the more we reached out, the less we connected. When everyone has access to the same data, it loses its competitive edge. The market spends $2.5

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. It was pretty interesting. Ross : No, the integration space.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Sam Taylor: On my first leadership role, I was the first enterprise sales rep, a manager of mid-market team. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. And so I was their first sales leadership hire.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound, and even followup sales campaigns faster using over one billion rows of performance data across 75 industries. It has been an incredible journey for him. So it’s a great show.

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