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. What are some of the biggest challenges that you’d like to tackle as the company’s new CTO? The first line was, ‘With almost three decades in technology,’” he told me.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. And he was a single guy and wanted to go find his wife and travel the world. It’s not like I just go … I can’t just go to my CTO and go, “Do that,” and he goes, “Yep.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. He is the chief revenue officer of a company called ADARA, a data cooperative focused on the travel and discretionary spending space, so we’ll dig into that. It has been an incredible journey for him. So it’s a great show. Sales enablement is easy.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Jonathan : Travel. And my retort was, for the first year, basically, well they’re the team that’s got my here so I’m going to stick with it, which I did for a year and then we kind of started turning around a little bit and saying, look, yeah, but are we growing as fast as we could be given the new reality of the ground?

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Payrix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

addresses this shift by expanding its scope to include 64 new requirements that specifically target eCommerce vulnerabilities. These new requirements cover various aspects of security, including phishing protection, multi-factor authentication, vulnerability scanning, and more. She loves to travel and is a true global citizen.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I approached the challenge of proving myself by pretty much consistently working harder and longer through much of my career. […] Now, as a new mum – it has forced me to find more balance. A friend of mine is working in finance as a compliance manager, and every New Year’s party the guys are literally harassing women.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Twenty-two marketing experts took the stage to give new solutions to old challenges and actionable solutions to new ones—not to mention the food, people, games, swag and after-parties that made it the best CTAConf yet. This year’s theme was “The Marketing Revolution” in response to the fact that marketing has changed. Speechless.

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Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. Prospecting tool for generating new leads. Nothing is new here. But we do know how online businesses work. Don’t worry about it.

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Upscope

MARCH 1, 2019

Below are some notes from our CTO on the main challenges you might find and how to overcome them. If it's the same, nothing happens, otherwise we send over the new picture. Upscope co-browsing is built from the ground up rather than using what were (at the time) a limited set of open source co-browsing solutions to start with.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

After all, thanks to the rise of Airbnb and similar platforms, the hospitality industry was looking for new revenue streams to boost bottom lines. I did some traveling and ended up going to New York City. One hotel took a chance on something completely new. Through Mucker, I met my CTO and co-founder, Taylor Bayouth.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. When Shape Up follows the road less traveled, there’s a smart reason for it. Not all agile is bad agile. Allowing a project to overrun its deadline is almost unheard of.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 11, 2020

On that note, we’ve also been really laser-focused in helping our support team build new and better systems to cope with that particular influx of the business right now. It sounds really lame, but probably travel. Check out this recent conversation our CEO David Politis had with Dropbox’s CTO Bharat Mediratta.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2023

It normally takes years for a new team to master Le Mans’ triple requirements: speed, reliability, and teamwork. A similar commitment, applied to cross-country driving, will get me from Winnetka to Taos, New Mexico, including a side trip to Alliance, Nebraska to visit that automative wonder of the world, Carhenge.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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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. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin. But to teach new salespeople how to do those great demos, how to sell with passion, how to sell as a team.

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GetUplift

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

” At the end, it says, “Paul, CTO, 21st Century Fox.” For example, we have, “Budapest is a top pick amongst travelers on your selected dates, 79% reserved,” and you have 66%, 66, 67, 69. You may know all of these techniques now, but it was quite new when they went up with it.

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User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

You launched a new app, and youre excited to see how its performing. If retention slips, you end up overspending on acquiring new users instead of growing revenue from those you already have. So, how do you offer value the moment a new user opens your app? Jose Gomez, CTO & Co-Founder at Evinex.

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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. Scott Barker: Awesome.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

So you guys are open up a new chapter down there. Casey Woo: Yeah, I, I have a thing where when I start a new CFO role, I sit down the entire team and I think one, one of the most important things for leadership is setting the mindset and the, and the tone. You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO.

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