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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?” the initial idea that I came up with for Pardot was simply to do an outsourced lead generation S as a service.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? I went into product marketing for the commercial arm of Xerox Park, which is a big computer research company here. Who has done this well?

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So we build a service that does cybersecurity global performance or liability for any internet property. And in these last 10 years, we have 26 million internet properties that use our service on any given day. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS? Do they renew our service?

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s 2000 bucks, but it’s awesome. Quarterly ENPS service. It’s the same reason that I don’t use outsourced SDRs. Once a quarter, we put someone on a private plane and send him to Vegas for a couple of nights in a five-star hotel if they dominate all their other sales peers. We run those every quarter.