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GTM 146: The Future of Search, AI, and Digital Presence with Mike Walrath, CEO of Yext

Sales Hacker

Learn more at [link] The GTM Podcast The GTM Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. I think one of the things that we’re dealing with now is that, tech for all intents hasn’t had a really significant downward cycle since 2002, 2001.

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GTM 149: Inside Meta’s $10B Sales Playbook with Rick Kelley

Sales Hacker

Sponsor Link: [link] The GTM Podcast The GTM Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. So, in 2002, I went to go and work at Yahoo. Rick Kelley: So when I came to interview for the Yahoo role, and I’m gonna go back now a couple Sophie Buonassisi: Yeah.

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Startup Best Practices 23 - Leveraging The Illusion of Explanatory Depth in Interviews

Tom Tunguz

This is the illusion of explanatory depth or IOED, which Rozenbilt and Keil described in 2002. The illusion enables a great interviewing technique. When worked at Google, I interviewed product managers. Fourth, we don’t practice explaining things very often. So how does this illusion apply in the world of startups?

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CX pioneer Jeanne Bliss on building customer-centric businesses

Intercom, Inc.

You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below. I’ve been coaching leaders around the world since 2002. I remember when I was in my 20s and I was interviewing for a job, I think it was for the Gap. The three-blocks-long hypothesis. After that, I wrote four books.

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From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Following five years at Oracle, I was lucky to land at Salesforce.com in 2002. One thing as a salesperson at Salesforce.com in 2002 and beyond, that I don’t really think we appreciated at the time to the extent that we should’ve, was this concept of a free trial. Dannie : What we do then is we synthesize those interviews.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

You’ve had a number of roles at Salesforce since you joined the company back in early 2002, from product management to startup relations. When I started in 2002, I was the first product manager for the API. When I started in 2002, I was the first product manager for the API. Mike: Thanks, John, for having me.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Ryan Smith: So the first media interview or press release we did, we said, “Hey, we’re raising a series A round, and Julie Bort from Business Insider got on the phone and was like, “How old are you? Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see.