Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Does it have to be tied to a number related to revenue? I met my wife in sales boot camp.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Black Holes: these are ideas that take up a lot of company effort while offering poor ROI. Full post.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Yep, we did that.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. You’ll save time and money in the long run.” costs money and 2.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Perhaps worse yet, long tenured employees of the company began leaving, saying the new focus on growth “didn’t feel Wistia.” At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this? Emilie : So, yes.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. How do they distinguish between culture and values?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. RELATED: How To Build A Data Drive Sales Team. Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33].

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

The monthly recurring revenue (MRR) of my MarTech startup Friendly recently has exceeded $1,000 – just 94 days after its launch. This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. But the launch generated at least one new test customer, with more to come in the next few days.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Frida Ahrenby : “I started out in sales in the TelCo industry, I started from working in one of the biggest TelCo providers in the Nordics, moving on to product management, then business development, and then a role in marketing and sales again. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Absolutely.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. Eric Yuan : Yeah, so we really wanted to develop all of our employees, myself included.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Loving our podcast content? What works?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. So look, again, we were, the product was out there, we were at revenue in our case. Jonathan : Oh wow.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Customer development interviews.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Why building trust with your internal team is the hallmark of great marketing leaders By Geoff Roberts The role of the modern Chief Marketing Officer is a tough one—you’d be hard pressed to name another position that requires a wider range of skills. Said another way, this is the best case scenario.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Customer development interviews.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. We’re already in this like a new gen.” You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling. And what people have to realize is that it is different for everyone.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? And so really it became a bad habit. What have been some of the challenges?

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