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

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The best engineers and CTOs build and release better software faster than the competition. 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. When you hire that VP of Engineering who never learns the product, it doesn’t work.

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25 predictions for SaaS in 2025

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Andrew Gazdecki , CEO of acquire.com We’re entering a new era where building software is easier, and AI is accelerating this trend. AI agents will drive SaaS into Service-as-a-Software, combining automation with expert services, where value-based pricing will dominate. Next we’ll be hiring it.

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Building a Stellar Engineering Organization

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Claire Hough is the VP of Engineering at Apollo and has nearly 20 years leading engineering and development teams at Udemy, Napster, and Netscape. Vijay Gill is the head of engineering at DataBricks and brings engineering leadership experience from Google, Microsoft, AOL, and Salesforce. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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So as you know, currently the co-founder of Atrium, we make sales performance analysis software that continuously monitors key performance indicators of AEs, SDRs, etc, and bubbles up areas of interest to managers, and operations, and leaders. This is my second software company. So that’s my day job. That sounds good.