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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

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Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine. How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc? I've always worked on financial systems.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you? How do we make that happen?