SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29 , we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. You’ll find out tomorrow.

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 283

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years.

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Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Well, in the past several years, there’s been a tremendous number of companies that have built specifically for developers and use this as a way to get into these new markets, to displace incumbents and disrupt the competition. Anyone who says the developer market is not strong is behind the times. The contract size grows.

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 207

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Short on time? Darragh Curran: Nick, welcome to Inside Intercom.

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Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Satisfying a group’s requirements becomes even more difficult in a challenging macroeconomic environment, where roughly half of the projects get funded and roughly 30% more deals require C-Suite approval than during “boom times”. Failure to do this will result in faulty forecasts, wasted time and effort, and missed targets.

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Part-Time VPE Technical Review Forecasting Software Review 117

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 164

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

They wanted real-time results. And so we actually had to make some major adjustments and look for an alternative way to deliver the software which clearly meant that we needed to move to the cloud full-time. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 3, 2021

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. He’s held executive-level engineering positions at companies such as Intel, McAfee, and SendGrid. Before joining BetterCloud, he served as a VP of engineering at Twilio.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Since then, he’s risen rapidly through the ranks and has established himself as a true thought leader in the world of quality engineering. Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. That was very exciting to me. Is that something you’d agree with?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Pricing is an incredibly important part of any SaaS product’s go-to-market strategy. At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. At Hired , we help top R&D, engineering, and tech talent find jobs they love.

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Technical Review 40

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

LeadDev New York March 14-15, New York Tickets: Basic LeadDev Pass – $1499 LeadDev is almost here. Frontegg will be a sponsor of LeadDev 2023 New York. The organizers are expecting to cross the 1000-people mark this time around. Frontegg will be a sponsor of DeveloperWeek 2023, SF Bay Area.

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