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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

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Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. Focus on retaining your engineers from day one. Empower your engineers to excel in their roles.

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The Top 10 Reasons to Attend 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

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Including: CEO Snowflake CEO HubSpot CEO DropBox CEO Descript CEO Clio CEO Flock Safety CEO Own CRO ServiceTitan CMO Databricks CMO Infinite Reality CTO Rubrik CCO Canva CCO Bill CCO GitHub VP AI Wiz CEO Calendly and 100s more!! Competitive Intelligence and Market Insights and New!!

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower SaaS

When we interview potential developers, we’re always amazed at how many can’t answer basic programming questions. New features always require significant rewrites, and consequently a lot of time. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas It’s hard to know if a developer is an A, B or C player, or a player at all.

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80 Founders Share The Moment They Knew … When They Really Had Something

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” — Jason Riedel, founder/CTO of Aspireship. “When on New Year’s Eve, customers kept sending us signed contracts.” “When customers get back $100k’s in minutes and want to pay us more” — Kanat Bekt, founder/CTO, SupplyPike. 20% conversion. ” — Drew Naugher.

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If You Don’t Have a Truly Great Founding Team, Just Take a Pause. Don’t Start Your Start-Up Yet.

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But what they don’t have is a good enough founding team: Sometimes, if the prospective founder isn’t super technical, then the CTO/VPE isn’t really great. They’ve got a rent-a-CTO. Or sometimes they are great, but the team members are just not great enough for their new C-level roles (CEO, CTO, CMO, CSO, CBO, C?O).

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

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If the PLG strategy is implemented well with a quick time to value, the cost of acquiring new customers and upselling the customers provides for a very efficient business model.”. Finally, I had a Zoom interview with JFrog’s Yoav Landman, who is the co-founder and CTO, and Jacob Shulman, who is the CFO.

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We Published 400+ LinkedIn Page Posts in the Past Year as a B2B Company — Here Are 9 Tactics That Worked for Us

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Here are a few types of visual content that we share to engage people directly on LinkedIn: Data graphics and reports Podcast audio snippets Webinar video snippets Customer interviews Customer quote cards Slides Infographics Culture and achievement photos Cloud cost memes A few examples of our visual content 2.