SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Brendon Cassidy, my VP of Sales wrote a version of this piece a while back. I though an updated version of this would be good for founders thinking about hiring a VP of Sales … VPs of Sales themselves … and VPs-to-be to read — Jason, ed. … 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup.

Sales Hiring 284

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Startup Sales 284

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley.

Merchant Services 225

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 225

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley.

Merchant Services 192

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 192

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.

Sales Recruiting 167

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 167