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International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

InsightSquared

I transitioned from education to software in 2008, and I have held roles in everything from project management to sales. To me, choosing to challenge means that you have to choose to withstand passive aggression and constructively challenge traditional concepts of hierarchy to make real improvements.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Adnan Chaudhry: One of the guiding principles that helped me personally, I was here as Matt mentioned, I was here at Salesforce in 2008, 2009. In the same construct, what are the opportunities here?

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The Playbook to Scaling High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So the time that I was at Google was 2007, so pre the 2008 recession. You’re passionate about diversity and you hire an all white male leadership team. This is the person that cares a lot, but is not super psyched about constructive conflict. We had 5,000 employees and $14 billion in revenue.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. How do Jeff and Sameer think about what what truly special leadership looks like today? We call them our leadership principles. What were his core learnings from that? *

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Loving our podcast content?

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. That starts with sales leadership and sales management. In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform. And in an increasing number of cases, marketers as well.

Scale 106
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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Doubt is a part of life.

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