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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. His journey from consultant to coder to fintech founder offers a masterclass in what he calls “asymmetric outcomes” strategic bets where the potential upside dramatically outweighs the downside.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. You can smother customers with love alone in the early days, but as you scale, you need a seasoned customer success team and VP that has done this before. She can be your CTO forever.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. You can smother customers with love alone in the early days, but as you scale, you need a seasoned customer success team and VP that has done this before. She can be your CTO forever.

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10 Learnings From Jeff Lawson (CEO Twilio) + Byron Deeter (Bessemer Ventures): “Adapt, Plan, Deliver”

SaaStr

He joined StubHub as CTO, but didn’t get nearly as much equity as the other CTO — because he “wasn’t committed enough.” Jeff first advocates fro “revenue diversification” They’ve worked that down at Twilio so their Top 10 Customers now represent a small fraction of their revenue.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. How quickly will we need to scale the application? The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Six months from now?

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The Top 200 SaaStr Annual Speakers: CEOs and CXOs of Klaviyo, GitHub, OpenAI, Cohere, Rippling, Notion, Calendly, Loom, Plaid, Rubrik, Webflow and So Much More!

SaaStr

So we’re scaling up the final speakers for 2024 SaaStr Annual, Sep 10-12 in SF Bay! We’re also starting to roll out sign up for 100s and 100s Braindates and Mentorship Sessions now, look for an email in your inbox soon if you are signed up for Annual! We’ll post the top ones soon! May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower SaaS

Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets. How would your product perform if your user base were to scale up by a factor of 10? cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas And what causes that?