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Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?

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"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI." In general, I find most start-ups want to keep engineering comp fairly flat. In general, I find most start-ups want to keep engineering comp fairly flat.

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What It Really Takes to Sell To Developers and Engineers with Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell

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In a recent SaaStr Workshop Wednesday , Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell who also previously led sales at companies like GitHub, shared his first-hand experience and insights for successfully selling to engineering teams. Engineering Directors : Often your champion and key influencer who can take you to the final approver.

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How I Reverse-Engineered a $100M Exit with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin

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How do you reverse-engineer your first million as a SaaS startup founder? SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin chats with Sam Parr on the popular YouTube channel and podcast My First Million about what’s required to make it on the map for a $100M exit and then reverse engineers the steps to get there. 50 or $1.

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SaaStr on My First Million Podcast: Reverse Engineering Your Way to $100,000,000+

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He has a broader audience than just B2B so it we touched on more topics that usual, and it was a great convo: Pricing in the early days Why you have to get to $300k+ in revenue per employee When to go multi-product Why your second product has to be bigger than your first How to double your pricing over time The challenge in low NRR models The One-and-Done (..)

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.

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The Playbook for Going Upmarket with Stripe’s CRO and Checkr’s COO

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But watch out – this is a major undertaking that touches product, engineering, sales, and finance. Thinking enterprise is just a go-to-market play. It’s not. The Metrics That Matter Have Changed Dramatically The “growth at all costs” era is dead.

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Dear SaaStr: Why Are So Many CEOs Former Engineers, or At Least Have Technical Backgrounds?

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Dear SaaStr: Why Are So Many CEOs Former Engineers, or At Least Have Technical Backgrounds? I’ve come to almost exclusively invest in founder-CEOs that are engineers. You need to recruit a great engineering team. You don’t need to be an engineer to do this, but most “salespeople” CEOs can’t pull this off.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into impactful products! There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Using this case study, he'll also take us through his systematic approach of iterative cycles of human feedback, engineering, and measuring performance. . 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk in this exciting webinar to learn all about: How to design and implement production-ready systems with guardrails, active monitoring of key evaluation metrics beyond latency and token count, managing prompts, and understanding the process for continuous improvement Best practices for setting up the proper mix of open- (..)

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

Why you should be involving engineers at every stage of the Cycle. During this presentation, attendees will hear case studies, examples, and best practices gleaned from Jim's 25 years of using the Product Discovery Cycle. In this webinar he will discuss: Data interpretation and numerical goal setting.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

This webinar is for engineering and product leaders who are struggling to find an innovation strategy that works. There's a lot of innovation advice out there, but very few companies are recognized for their innovation. Despite the importance of new product development, more than half of all product launches and innovations fail.

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Fuel the Engine of Product Growth with an Impeccable Framing Model

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President, Tyner Blain

For this model to work, your product has to be genuinely desirable to the users you want to engage as the company's engine of growth. Participants in this webinar will learn: A framing model of the key decisions that give a product a chance to succeed and fuel the engine of growth.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Prioritize engineering work by putting it in the context of end user experience. However, this increased velocity often comes at the cost of overall application performance or reliability.

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How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As an innovative concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry, and emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.