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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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? At what scale does that become impossible? 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. Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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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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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

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

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

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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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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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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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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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need. 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.

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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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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

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Plaid has always been a wartime company and we’re trying to continue to scale that out. Zach : So, generally it’s a developer that will introduce it to a product manager and the product manager will do the sales within the organization for us. We’ve had lots of difficulties.

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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. We’re growing, but we’re not growing at the rate and scale we think we should be. We’re not growing at the rate and scale that frankly makes sense for a venture-backed company.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why press isn’t something he stressed when scaling and neither should you. 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. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Think about that.

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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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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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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

The panelists offer their insights, which at times conflict with the viewpoints of other panelists, on hiring a cohesive team that can really scale the business. Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. We also do UberConference.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. So again, when you start a company and then now we’ve scaled it to in 2019 we did about 287 million in revenue last year.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front row seat at some of these turnarounds at iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap, which is undergoing its own transformation. .” It can really vary.

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