Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Steven Broudy , Vice President and Head of Sales at Bevy, which helps companies build virtual communities. Steven is a long time SaaS sales executive, having worked at MuleSoft before coming to Bevy. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And by 2003 we were almost out of business. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. We’re starting to having lay people off.” And no boring demos.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. It was back when you used different words for it, things like managed software or application service provider. John Mellor: And that year, when I joined in 2003, Omniture did $8 million in revenue.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

Headed into the global financial crisis a decade ago, a group of almost 3,900 companies worldwide that we ran through Bain’s Sustained Value Creators analysis posted double-digit earnings growth, on average, from 2003 to 2007. What specifically distinguishes eventual winners? They invested substantially in R&D instead of dialing back.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

So, I joined Google early on in 2003. The first engineer that I sat next to … And I was in sales. We were always building a full platform that a sales or a support organization could go and buy. In my past career I was running sales organizations who are used to having a target and having a team.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

10-25 minutes - Aaron shares how MindTouch now uses a customer success blueprint with each of their customers, which drives alignment not only throughout the sales and onboarding process but also across departments and with relevant executive sponsors. So I went around to the different product teams. Geoff: Sure.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. In 2003 we realized that CMOs were really struggling with the auction-based nature of media buying in Search and we knew that was a math problem we could solve in a way that would tie directly to their business success.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and celebrated goals that either aren’t effected as much or snap back very quickly. Somehow this defies logic but is true.

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