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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Head of Sales. VP Sales (45 Employees). billion in 2012.

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How Your Startup's Org Chart Changes Your Product

Tom Tunguz

The sales team has a webpage. In 2008, Alan MacCormack and his co-authors researched and validated Conway’s Law in HBR by studying the software produced by companies and contrasting that with open source software produced by communities. ” In other words, the marketing team has a webpage.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

SaaStr

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PagerDuty and Gusto — April 17, 2020

SaaStr

in about 2008. It was really a cross-functional effort with sales and marketing and product and a growth team that’s responsible for all our digital and web presence. So more than ever, companies need our services. There’s wins across the business with product teams, with sales teams, with marketing.

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