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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Then trying to maintain that as we scale is always the challenge.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Before Figma, Kyle spent close to 3 years as an Account Executive at ADP. Why is it so hard moving from 0-1 in sales? What does it take to create a performance led sales culture?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset.

Scale 130
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The Evolving Role of the CEO: As a Company Scales, How Your Job Changes (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Justin Kan : It seems like kind of a renewed emphasis or maybe a new emphasis on mental health and building a different kind of company, like one that’s maybe a little bit more balanced and focused on kind of the holistic experience of being a member of the team is something that’s intrinsic to both you guys’s companies.

Scale 112
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Aligning sales and marketing, with Intercom’s Brian Kotlyar and Jeff Serlin

Intercom, Inc.

Marketing and sales may employ different tactics, but their goal should be singular: help the company sell its product. Sometimes, however, blocks can develop in the pipeline. Here are 4 quick takeaways: Many early-stage companies fail because they scale sales too quickly. you’re not ready to build out sales.

Scale 99
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

Scale 126
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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?