Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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? Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale.

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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. She’s looking forward to helping BetterCloud scale and become one of the most reliable solutions that customers use. What does your role as the CTO entail?

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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. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Average salary: $100,340/yr. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. However, as the company grew, their systems started to fail all the time, prompting the team to re-think their approach and look for a scalable solution. How was that possible? Click To Tweet.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us. I’m the founder of Blossom Capital. Evgenia : Hi.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. How to Screw Up Your Software Pricing and Packaging Completely. Find out here. SaaS Pricing Basics.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. Seema: Would love to talk about finding those initial customers who you tested with.

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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. The biggest, in August, we turned 10.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? Let’s face it, even the top-notch expense management software can fail your employees if they don’t use it, but it also has to be easy and simple to use. Enterprise.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. Time Is Money: Focus On Your Core Competencies. If we had used any other system, we would have had to write the code ourselves to handle our usage based billing.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. However, as the company grew, their systems started to fail all the time, prompting the team to re-think their approach and look for a scalable solution. How was that possible? Tweet this quote.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Find innovators (10:36). ? 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? Enlist the co-founders (06:34). ?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. I see it all the time, which is, you said it super well, make money, save money, reduce risk. Bernadette Nixon. Jay Snyder.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And unfortunately it wasn’t Larry and Sergei who we’re starting Google at the same time, but it was two other students doing something much more mundane. They were building time and expense software. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.”

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Firstly, in the past five years, there’s been an explosion of technology companies — Scott Brinker’s team at ChiefMartec produce the dizzying Martech supergraphic each year. And with that, more data disintegration.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. Is your title CTO?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. Is your title CTO?

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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. Why is your mobile app user retention declining? What is a good retention rate for apps?

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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. Sense of it.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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) 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)

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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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