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Building a $100M ARR Sales Team the Second Time Around with WP Engine (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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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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PODCAST 107: Origin Stories and the Core Principles of Sales Leadership with Lori Richardson

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Lori Richardson , founder of Score More Sales. Loris is passionate about pursuing, advocating, and furthering the cause of female sales leadership and helping women advance through their careers. We talk about what makes a great sales person. We’re on iTunes.

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Your Product Sells Itself. Now Hire Sales.

OpenView Labs

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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PODCAST 76: Bottom-up Approach for Sales Rep Productivity Model w/ Kevin Egan

Sales Hacker

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 Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

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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From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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?