SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. In this top-rated session Dharmesh Shah, cofounder and CTO of HubSpot, shares how he and his co-founders broke all of the “rules” and ended up creating an entirely new category of marketing software.

Part-Time VPE 290

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 290

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

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.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

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.

Engineering 184

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 184

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute e-signatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. Her human-first approach has transformed a traditional service component of an organization to a clear and distinctive market differentiator. It’s a fantastic show.

Customer Success 68

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 68

SaaStr

MAY 5, 2025

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.

AI 277

AI Fractional VPE Scale SaaS 277

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

Dave Kellogg, Principal @ Dave Kellogg Consulting. Sarah Brown, VP of Marketing @ Sastrify. Hana Jacover, VP of Marketing @ Chili Piper. Laura Kendall, VP of Marketing @ MadKudu. Lauren Wright, VP Revenue @ Demodesk. Lindsey Serafin VP of Customer Success @ Snyk. Sara Rossio, CPO @ G2.

Technical Cofounder 246

Technical Cofounder Fractional VPE CTO Engineering 246

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

If it’s helpful to you, it’s got everything from how to build the sales com plan to how to think about hiring a VP marketing and how to hire a customer success thing. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. I’ve made a bad VP of Sales hire.

Sales Hiring 284

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 284

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2019

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.

Engineering 155

Engineering Part-Time VPE Technical Review Fractional VPE 155

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Software Review SaaS Part-Time VPE 40

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The reason we did this, we took this decision is because of our bet on the market. Like search engine are very intensive in term of CPU versus the memory. So we had to pretty much select a very specific machine, very specific hardware to make sure we have the best performance of the market. Is it realistic?

Scale 169

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 169

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

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.

Part-Time VPE 283

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 283