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7 Pieces of Advice Entrepreneurs Never Hear That They Need to Hear with Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

The best engineers and CTOs build and release better software faster than the competition. A truly great Head of Marketing or Demand Gen will get you more leads than the rest. All that matters is people, and the number one mistake founders make is hiring a VP of anything that you aren’t 95% sure is great.

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10 Years In Tech

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Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. As a US citizen, it’s very clear to me that many of our best and brightest go into this field.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. The other thing is, if you have a person on the team who is very fluent in English, you can have communication happening in the local market, in Spanish and still get the communication back to San Francisco just fine. They’re the varsity.

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The Deadly “AI Slow Roll” in SaaS: It May Cost You Everything

SaaStr

You know what I’m talking about: It’s the VP of Engineering who’s “still evaluating Windsurf and Cursor” but says it’s still a little bit early. The mediocre middle of go-to-market teams is about to be hollowed out, leaving only elite relationship builders and strategic consultants at the top.

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Building a Stellar Engineering Organization

SaaStr

Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

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25 predictions for SaaS in 2025

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Kathleen Booth , SVP of Marketing and Growth at Pavilion SaaS brands will double down on brand-building as AI commoditizes traditional demand gen. Kathleen Booth , SVP of Marketing and Growth at Pavilion SaaS brands will double down on brand-building as AI commoditizes traditional demand gen. Next we’ll be hiring it.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

SaaStr

Peter Kazanjy: So at TalentBin, that was kind of like my first training wheels, SaaS business, and also the place where I started to learn and appreciate go to market. So I went from being a business generalist founder, so prior to that I was in product marketing and product management at VMware, so big enterprise software company.