Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

Both companies eventually offered talent acquisition, performance management, and learning tools for human resources teams. Taleo initially focused on recruiting tools and SuccessFactors on performance management. Both of these business weathered the dot com crash in 2001 and the financial meltdown in 2008.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? Harry Stebbings: Totally, in terms of that sales cycle.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. Felix : Yeah, sure.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Jason Purcell, Co-founder and CEO of Salsify, saw firsthand the crippling economic impacts of the 2008 Great Recession. In building Salsify, a product experience management company, he and his executive team expected another recession to occur at some point, and they knew they’d have to plan for the worst.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. We had a pretty big team.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. For instance, recruiters with first-hand customer experience are able to give job candidates real examples of what it’s like to work at Zapier.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. I always say kind of tele-sales are the most important form of kind of training in terms of sales.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2008. Based in: New York. Funding to date: $234M. Founded: 2009.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Bill Binch , Chief Revenue Officer for Pendo and a former sales executive at Marketo who, over close to 10 years, helped guide the company through multiple phases of growth including both an IPO and an acquisition. . The challenges of managing a global team. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash. What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? Why does this have such a high rate of failure?

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2008. Based in: New York. Funding to date: $234M. Founded: 2009.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2015

LinkedIn attracts hundreds of millions of consumers to post resumes online and sells this data and access to its audience to advertisers and recruiters and salespeople. Recruiters buy Talent Solutions to find, connect with and acquire talented people. In 2007, online sales generated 63% of revenue.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales?

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Anthony made his way into the world of SaaS starting in the sales team at Box and how that led to his entering the world of marketing and creating the customer success category. * How does this compare to the relationship of sales and marketing more traditionally?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Anthony Kennada , CMO at Front. If you missed episode 86 , check it out here: PODCAST 86: Strategic Vs Tactical Approach in Sales Planning with Mary Rogul. Anthony’s journey from sales to product to marketing. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“Even the idea of doing sales or interviewing a customer is a huge leap for them because, in many large companies, the developers are actively kept away from the customers” Michele: Yeah. You can see that companies that came about after 2008 or 2010 or so focus more on understanding the customer. Michele: Yeah.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. So we launched the company in February of 2008. We launched the company in 2008.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It allows us to think more about kind of where we end with the organization, how we interact with the organization, and allows us to spend a lot of time on account management and figuring out how best to kind of create champions out of those customers we have. So 2008 was 10 years ago.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. These are sales goals. We want to increase sales by 20% this quarter and just do whatever it takes to win. How many of you are familiar with TaskRabbit, have you used TaskRabbit? We had to be okay.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* 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

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add. What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. You could recruit, you could do fundraising rounds, you could do all this stuff and then you would have arrived. Think about that.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In the summer of 2015, Box co-founder Aaron Levie recruited Jeetu Patel to create an open platform where developers could build Box content management into their own products. And it’s interesting with iOS, Steve Jobs didn’t even want to build a platform, but that turned out to be a great thing.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

We know it for its award-winning Android and iOS POS (point of sale) systems to the food and catering industries. Besides providing tools for HR management and direct payroll, Personio helps businesses in recruiting processes. Established in 2008, Zalando is an online apparel retailer with over 150000 products.

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