Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 4)

SM: Tell me about your move from EDS to PeopleSoft? MG: In 1999 I was recruited by a headhunter at Spencer Stewart. Craig Conway had become the CEO of PeopleSoft, he had been there for 6 months, and he had a vision of re-tooling the ERP software space and re-tooling the company. One of the

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Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 3)

SM: So how did you get from CTO to GM? MG: One day at work I got a call from my wife. I was in downtown Toronto, serving as the Chief Technologist of EDS Canada, and I was 30 years old. I had been married to my wife for 5 years … she was my

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Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 2)

SM: When did you switch to general management? MG: Coming out of that job I ended up having a large team. I woke up one day and realized I had a hundred developers reporting to me. The transition from being the technical architect to working with multiple technical architects and helping them get their vision

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Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 1)

In our Enterprise 3.0 coverage, I bring you, next, a conversation with Michael Gregoire, CEO of Taleo (Nasdaq: TLEO). Taleo had 2007 sales of $128 Million, and a market cap of close to $500 Million. In this case-study, we will do a deep-dive into the company’s business with Michael.

Talent Management & Personal Branding

James Governor emailed me this link to a very interesting piece on how talent management is evolving in the corporate world, as Talent discovers how to leverage Personal Branding via online visibility, and corporations discover how to locate Talented people by scouting the Internet. Yes, this will have long term consequences, as a direct channel

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