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CRO Confidential: What It Really Takes to Be Successful in Enterprise SaaS Sales with Christian Smith, CRO of Splunk

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Splunk is a 20-year-old Enterprise software giant that has accomplished many things — a 2012 IPO, a $28B+ Cisco acquisition in 2023, and $3.7 Over the years, Splunk has expanded its offerings through acquisitions and product development. billion of ARR last year, with a market cap of $25.7 His answer? Pipeline, pipeline, and pipeline.

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SaaS Couples Counseling for Sales & Marketing with Greenhouse’s CMO and VP Enterprise

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As a CMO, Van Vuuren understands this all too well, saying, “As marketers, we can care a lot about the metrics around awareness, audience reach, and database-building and all of those campaign metrics. But the thing that we really need to ensure is that our sales and marketing teams are aligned on the core metrics.”

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Why the Future of Customer Success, Sales and Marketing Has Changed For Good: Ask-Me-Anything Part 2 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

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In part one of this week’s Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin, he answered the community’s questions about whether all anyone cares about is AI anymore, investor appetites going into 2024, vertical SaaS, and thriving as a solo founder. Before, humans graded the outcome of customer support.

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Four Steps To Build Repeatable B2B Enterprise Selling Motions with Playbuilt Founder and CEO Bo Borland

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PST, Bo Borland, founder, and CEO of playbuilt, shares four steps for creating repeatable success at every stage of growth, specifically in B2B Enterprise. Moving From SMB To Enterprise — A combination of pre-sales like solution or sales engineering, customer success, and a more robust revenue ops function.

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State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)

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Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. Announcements of several blockbuster acquisitions, most notably from Adobe acquiring Figma, which was the highest valuation multiple offered in an acquisition for any software company at scale.

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Optimizing GTM for PLG with Stage 2 Capital Co-Founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge (Pod 594 + Video)

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Product-led growth (PLG) is the consumerization of software—a strategy B2B software companies can learn from growth teams at successful consumer tech companies. . The growth teams at consumer tech companies such as LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Lyft use the product rather than people to drive users through an adoption funnel. Monetization.

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Four Sales Compensation Tactics for Consumption-Based GTM with MongoDB’s SVP of Sales

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Moving from a traditional SaaS to a pure consumption model was a challenging but fun transition for MongoDB. Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. You have to think about what behavior you’re trying to drive. It didn’t work.