Executive Cocktail: Buy or Build? When and how to make decisions?
Bring your hardest buy vs build challenges and decisions to the dinner table with curated product and engineering leaders. Walk away with new insights from fellow leaders who have been in your shoes.
With the growing availability of software and embedded products, fast-growing companies and bigger companies are facing more options and analysis paralysis to decide whether to buy vs build specific part of their tech stack.
Join Rutter and Orb, where we'll dive into this dilemma with top execs from product, engineering, and GTM fields. Food and drinks will be provided. Come hungry and curious.
Some starting topics we'll dive into together in small groups:
Why: What are some starting signals or triggers that would allow companies to consider buying a solution vs building on their own?
When: When is the right time to decide? How much time should company spend in discovering solutions vs making decisions and vetting vendors?
How to assess vendors: What are some areas to watch and decision criteria? What are a few questions to ask to derisk your decision?
Adoption & onboarding: Defining success criteria and adoption timeline to shorten time to value.
Lessons & mistakes learned: Sharing any mistakes or lessons learned from past decisions you have made.
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Our past dinners were joined by the CEO of Pipe, Head of Partnerships at Mindbody, CTO of Torpago, and 100+ other executive product and engineer leaders. Learn what our past attendees have said:
"Great dinner, and guests were top notch, there was magic around our table." - CEO of Received.ai
"Thanks for hosting a really great event. I met many great people." - Head of Partnerships of Mindbody
"Met a lot of interesting folks at my table that I'll remain connected with." - CEO of Chargeblast
Agenda:
6:00-6.30: Open mixer & circle intro
6:30- 7:00: Short interview: Rutter x Orb - how Rutter and Orb teams made decisions in buying software and lessons learned.
7:00-7:15: Break (food + drinks)
7:15-8:15: Small circle discussions
8:15-8:30: Final toast & goodbye
This event is invite-only. Please request an invite to join.
This event is hosted by Rutter and Orb
About Rutter: Unified API for B2B financial products. Build once to integrate with any financial platform. Backed by leading investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, YC, leadership team at Plaid, and more. Trusted by Mercury, Payoneer, Airwallex and many other companies to add robust integrations with e-commerce, accounting, and payment platforms in days, not months or years.
About Orb: Orb is a flexible usage-based billing engine that transforms usage data into accurate invoices. It is on a mission to provide every business with the infrastructure to unlock revenue. Orb is backed by top-tier VCs such as Greylock and Menlo Ventures.
Explore how Orb leveraged Rutter to ship complex NetSuite integrations in ~2.5 weeks.