About This Event
The journey from $0 to $100M is incredibly challenging, especially from a technical and product leadership standpoint. You face a constant barrage of feature requests, scalability challenges, compliance demands, changes to your go-to-market approach, and more, but it's the CPO and/or CTO's responsibility to be a critical voice in those discussions, and ultimately execute the (always aggressive) roadmap that is decided upon.For that reason, we're excited to hear from Philip Rathle, CTO at the $2B+ Neo4j, who has been at the company for over 12 years, served as CPO until 2023, and will be generously sharing his hard-won lessons learned on their journey to over $100M, including:
- Deciding whether to go from horizontal to vertical or vice versa
- Choosing between targeting enterprise and SMB, when your product can (in theory) do both
- Dealing with tension between adoption-oriented features (like OSS) and commercial
- Prioritizing your product roadmap
- Cross-functional communication
- And more!
About Guilds by FirstMark
Guilds by FirstMark are private, invite-only communities for exceptional C- and VP-level leaders from breakout technology companies. The Guilds come to life through regular live events, online community, and a library of resources and insights that are only available to members.We run Guilds for engineering, sales, finance, people, product, marketing, and more. If one of your C/VP-level peers would like access to a private community, please email ben@firstmark.com.
