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MAY 7, 2013

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. Beyond that he (and thus engineering) could simply tell me, “No.” Here is where I see this really play out: Product Management. I did this. ” Those were the rules.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

.&# Still, I’ll bet that functionally you divide areas of competence like sales & marketing, product, engineering, biz dev, etc. I usually encourage people to think about titles like, “Founder & CTO&# or “Founder & VP Marketing.&#. Functional roles provide more clarity around roles and responsibilities.

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MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Always seek input.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

We worked with police departments, the ministry of defense, many of the largest utility companies in Europe and a ton of contractors, engineers, architects, developers and suppliers. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios. In revenue terms our first two years of sales were $2.1 million and then $5.9

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MARCH 23, 2014

I will soon announce a few fundings (not yet closed, sorry) and I’m beginning to help them think about how to ramp up their engineering teams. And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company.

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

Maker Studios is dedicated to working with “talent” in the same way that Silicon Valley is dedicated to working with engineers. And I’m excited to say that we’ve poached a major technologist from Silicon Valley who will move down to Los Angeles join as CTO in January. More on this soon.

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APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch.

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JUNE 16, 2016

The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel. The founder & CEO —  Assaf Glazer  — is a Phd in computer vision from Technion in Israel and furthered his work with a postdoctorate from Cornell Tech in New York, where he hatched Nanit.

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JULY 5, 2010

CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. But where I make exceptions I expect the VP Engineering and the Chief Architect to all be located in the home office. I expect the VP Engineering to be from the same culture and speak the same native tongue as the offshore location.

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