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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

Scale 210
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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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PODCAST 150: Driving Sales Home: Tips From an Auto Dealership with Michelle Benfer

Sales Hacker

What has changed in sales leadership since 2005 [8:43]. Today, Michelle leads a large team at HubSpot, which just came off a strong year, despite — or perhaps because of — the pandemic. Learn how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events and turns them into revenue. And on Stitcher.

Scale 59
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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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SaaStr Podcast #407 with The Creative Curve Author Allen Gannett: “The Secrets of Market Timing and How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time”

SaaStr

Announcer: Up today, the secrets of market timing, how to develop the right idea at the right time with Allen Gannett, author of The Creative Curve. Those are bad answers, and while you do that, I’m going to have a sip of water. These are bad ideas. This is where the cloud meets. Allen Gannett: Okay.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. For certain customer profiles or market segments, it may be necessary to combine freemium with a sales team. The Hotjar founders came from backgrounds creating consumer products, so developing software for end users was a fairly natural transition.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Some developer’s tinkering with something. So product and the growth team within product really owns a lot of that. The handoffs were very bad.

Scale 107