Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. A tale of two career paths.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Who is this person?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. He had a sense for it. He saw something.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode provides elastic APIs & dedicated node services, as well as powerful tools & analytics. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. will build upon machine learning and artificial intelligence to process information with almost human-like ability.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Putting prices online seems to be a SaaS entrepreneur’s worst nightmare.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. .” The process to change price points can’t happen in real-time.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Angus is an investor who brings real world operating experience to his job.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. The definition of CTO is so broad and that’s what I like about this role! What is the biggest challenge?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Leverage the prospect’s buying process (08:04). ? First strategy here is to build the relationship on a human level , and I think one element of that is you’ve got to get in person. When that person goes to their colleagues and says, “ I want to buy this ,” and they say, “ Buy from who?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. If you’re reading this post, this probably isn’t news to you. I’ll be the first to admit that all of the above resonates with me - I think more companies looking to stay independent and operate on their own terms is, generally, a good thing.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. While getting everyone on board with culture might feel exhaustive or you might feel like “that” company, it's the down payment for making a strong culture for the long haul. Compliance.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. So I have a process, sort of a checklist.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. But there's an urgent need for technical resources within growth teams.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So how did that experience impact your operating mentality and I guess what were your biggest takeaways from that experience? And I think what it taught me on the operating side was that consistency is absolutely fundamental scale. And that was one of the things that I had learned from an operating standpoint. Yousuf Khan: Yes.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's the thing that I spend pretty much all of my non-family time, non-personal time on. Sam: Got it. Shaan: Yeah.

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Stax

APRIL 16, 2025

Stax CTO, Mark Sundt , recently sat down with John Gaffney from PYMNTS for an eye-opening conversation about the exciting future of AI and how it’s poised to revolutionize the business world. With MPC, theres a whole new world of possibilities. Mark adds, I do this all the time with my cell phone bill.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's the thing that I spend pretty much all of my non-family time, non-personal time on. Sam: Got it. Shaan: Yeah.

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Scytale

APRIL 9, 2025

With cyber threats, data breaches , and new compliance rules popping up all the time, how do businesses keep their data safe? Plus, we’ll share a few handy tips on how you can easily implement these controls and make the process a whole lot smoother (spoiler alert: automation’s got your back). Lets get started!

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Scytale

APRIL 14, 2025

Regarding effective risk management , pretty much all compliance frameworks include regular security awareness training (SAT) programs as a basic requirement. Still, you don’t have a fighting chance without influencing the day-to-day security culture of operating securely or without implementing a behavioral change.

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User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

You launched a new app, and youre excited to see how its performing. Ive seen various online forum discussions where people often share short-term fixes like heavy marketing or minor feature tweaks, hoping to retain more users. So, how do you offer value the moment a new user opens your app? How do you calculate user retention?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell. Cassie, welcome.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30)

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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