TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Will you need to add arbitrary new pages?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 19, 2024

A good / great employee can become 10x in a new environment was part of Auren’s point. My co-founder and our CTO were both wicked smart. We took a technology that was worthless, bought it, and sold it for $50 million just 12.5 I saw this live in my first start-up. They truly did the impossible. months later.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

However, getting from technological breakthrough to useful applications is far from straightforward. We’ve built some exciting new features into Intercom using this new GPT technology and have given access to several hundred customers – and the response has been astounding. Great stuff!”

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. Braindates are 1:1 and small group networking sessions designed for you to share knowledge and network with like-minded SaaS leaders during SaaStr Europa.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2020

This modern architecture for data analysis, operational metrics, and machine learning enables companies to process data in new ways. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon wrote about how Amazon uses cloud data lakes to operate their business. Cloud Data Lakes are a trend we’ve been excited about for a long time at Redpoint.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2022

Bonney Pelley, SVP, Strategy + Operations @ New Relic. Ezinne Udezue, VP Product Management @ Procore Technologies. Elias Torres, CTO @ Drift. Bonney Pelley, SVP, Strategy + Operations @ New Relic. Elias Torres, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer @ Drift. Howie Liu, Co-Founder and CEO @ Airtable.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2022

Bonney Pelley, SVP, Strategy + Operations @ New Relic. Ezinne Udezue, VP Product Management @ Procore Technologies. Elias Torres, CTO @ Drift. Howie Liu, Co-Founder and CEO @ Airtable. Michelle Longmire, CEO @ Medable. Josh Reeves, CEO & Co-Founder @ Gusto. Avlok K, CEO @ AngelList. Farrah B, VP Business Operations @ Cribl.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… Marianna Tessel, Intuit CTO + Cathy Polinsky, Stitch Fix CTO + Robin Ducot, Survey Monkey CTO. We’re especially excited about this all-star, CTO panel from three publicly traded companies. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. CRM wasn’t a new category, but they were done on-premise.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

It’s more ‘Oh, this technology is great. Benjamin added, “I think a lot of people think about this new AI technology as something that’s gonna just come in and like work from day one. For Douwe at ContextualAI, he believes technology has a lot of potential to do good. What will it actually be?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners. To learn more about Stax, visit staxpayments.com.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Bai took on a number of senior positions – Director of HR and Director of Marketing at Alibaba, as well as Chief Marketing Officer of Jiangsu Ju Teng Network Technology. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Kandy Yeung.

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Infinicept

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

New Role Extends Infinicept’s Leadership in Embedded Payments and Drives Advancements in Embedded Finance DENVER – February 9, 2023 – Infinicept, a leading provider of embedded payments, today announced that it has appointed Anne-Jeanette LeBell as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. Also, determine whether you have the right CTO to handle these changes. To win, you have to hire hackers and tinkerers who love working on the bleeding edge of technology. What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make? Let’s jump right in.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

A couple of weeks ago, we launched a new podcast called SaaSOps Leaders With David Politis. And in a recent episode with Marques Stewart, vice president of technology at Achievement First, he briefly reflected on how he got promoted. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.”

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. He went on to serve as CEO of Avatar Technologies and Pacific Data before joining Rational Software as President and COO until its acquisition by IBM. Keep your eyes peeled as we unveil the list and a bit more about your favorite leaders.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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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. In that moment, I learned something very special about technology, and I also learned something very special about my relationship with learning.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. Soon after, new teams started building a lot of new features and services, and they assumed full on call responsibilities. The history of on call at Intercom. There were too many people on call at any moment.

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Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In a Quora thread , Ian McAllister, Director of Airbnb and former GM of Amazon describes the process: “ For new initiatives a product manager typically starts by writing an internal press release announcing the finished product. Rewrite the blog post until you have something you’d be happy publishing.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive. Overall, Valerian Technology can provide many benefits to your organization.

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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. We take care of most of Intercom’s backend technologies. Geoffrey: A lot of this is about choosing standard, or maybe even “boring” technologies.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As the UKs tech startup ecosystem continues to thrive, visionary founders are driving innovation across various industries, shaping the future of technology , finance , healthcare , and beyond. a next-generation AI-driven autonomous driving system that adapts to new environments through data-driven learning.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 5, 2023

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. They can provide guidance on which technologies to invest in and help you create a roadmap for the future. When you need specialized expertise: A fractional CTO can bring a level of expertise that you may not have in-house.

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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. The first line was, ‘With almost three decades in technology,’” he told me. At the same time, this is an area that has been underserved from a technological solution set.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. I hope that by the end you have some new ways of thinking about what tools you use yourself, and some of the pitfalls that you might not be aware of. To start, let’s ask: what is a tool?

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. I've always been one to jump on the new thing as soon as I discover it. Social Media is always changing, and platforms come and go.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. Technology, for a long time, has been incredibly capable. Short on time?

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. What’s changing, rather, is the entity I’m delivering through – a new company called Crafty CTO.

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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 made you want to pursue a career in technology? I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do—I focused on technology, international business, and marketing.

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The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In my opinion, the founder team of a SaaS startup needs to excel in three areas: engineering/technology, product/UX and domain/market expertise. Here's the full answer that I posted on Quora – I'd be very interested in what others think: In my experience the ideal team size is three.

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Stax

AUGUST 19, 2024

Stay Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Valentin Neiconi as Chief Risk Officer. Neiconi brings more than 15 years of experience in risk and fraud management leadership to his new role, with a deep background in developing fraud risk solutions, risk data collection and analysis, and compliance.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Jeremy Krahl as the SVP, ISV Business Development. Stax’s mission and commitment to unlock partner and customer success through its innovative technology really resonates with me,” said Krahl. “I Stax Payments , Inc.,

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

At the core of every technological breakthrough and digital advancement lies a single, unifying element: the relentless pursuit of innovation. In this post, we will explore why innovation is not just important but essential in the technology sector, a domain where change is the only constant.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go. Containers!

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