OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

From its bootstrapped founding in 2002 all the way to a $5 billion valuation in 2016, Atlassian famously had no sales people. ‘No No sales’ became nearly as synonymous with Atlassian as ‘no software’ was with Salesforce. Atlassian now has a sales team. Public PLG Businesses Are Doubling Down on Sales.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Dave Kellogg. In 2001, you could raise money pretty easily at pretty high valuations, and in 2002 there were two types of companies: those who had raised large amounts of money at crazy valuations in 2001, and dead, right? Don’t go hire 20 more.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Godard Abel. And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. So I want to discuss, first you mentioned the BigMachines, and post sales Oracle, you did version 2.0 Godard Abel. Jennifer Tejada.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Peter Wooster , a 25-year veteran of technology sales and executive management who is now running his own consulting firm, Wooster Advisors. When is it time to hire someone in customer success? Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2019

Join Kevin Egan, Slack’s VP of North American Sales and Dannie Herzberg, Slack’s Director of Sales as they walk you through Slack’s Freemium to Enterprise strategies. Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales @ Slack. Dannie Herzberg, Head of Mid-Market Sales @ Slack. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

JULY 4, 2019

Matt Schatz is SVP of Sales at WPEngine, responsible for defining and executing the global sales strategy. Matt has nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in sales and customer growth, specifically for technology companies with customers around the world including Bazaarvoice, CityVoice and Rackspace.

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