User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Very rarely, these technologies also let you do things you’d never considered possible. Remember printed memos ?).

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They are based on blockchain technology, a decentralized ledger that records transactions across a network of computers. However, they are still relatively new and their value can be extremely volatile, making them a high-risk investment for some people. Poor management: A cryptocurrency project is only as good as the team behind it.

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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. Her team loved working for her.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. Eric Yuan : Yeah, so we really wanted to develop all of our employees, myself included.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. Bring such people into the DevOps fold, share learnings and build trust.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. Melissa Kwan : “I quit my job in SAP and wanted to start a company that uses technology. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Perhaps worse yet, long tenured employees of the company began leaving, saying the new focus on growth “didn’t feel Wistia.” and paid it out to the Founders and early team members. The company even took $2.5M

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Absolutely.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. and a New Era in Sales Tech Last week, we unveiled Operator , the first company incubated within GTMfund, alongside the announcement of a $3.6 The platform leverages advanced AI in a way that fundamentally changes how sales teams operate.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Vlad: So what’s the new reality? So we needed to kind of get the new mindset going. She’s still-.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Loving our podcast content? What works?

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Her career spans nearly 25 years, and includes development skills in the full web stack, as well as the business side of the house. She is currently on the verge of starting a new FinTech startup which will be her fifth but she has built close to 100 startups for other people over the years. How to successfully lead a team.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. We’re already in this like a new gen.” Justin Bedecarre: Totally.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Yep, we did that.

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Scytale

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The bad news is that just waving a wand won’t cut it. Once you have assessed your compliance level with the SOC 2 standards, identify and document any gaps or weaknesses. Create an action plan Develop a detailed roadmap to address the gaps that you have identified in order to meet the requirements of SOC 2.

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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. It’s that.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? And so really it became a bad habit. What have been some of the challenges?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

38:33 The commoditization of technology in the age of AI. 38:33 The commoditization of technology in the age of AI. If you add any teammates in January to your team, theyll get a free month too. So you guys are open up a new chapter down there. With you, the CFO and kind of the, the finance and ops team.

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