SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

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. First, what is continuous customer development? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

Scale 123

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 123

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?

Product Marketing 74

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 74

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. Where does culture begin to breakdown?

Sales Hiring 140

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 140

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? Why is 12 months so crucial? Harry Stebbings: Absolutely.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 183

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Plaid has always been a wartime company and we’re trying to continue to scale that out. We have a very strong kind of developer focus.

Payments 142

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 142

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? At what scale does that become impossible? Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

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. .” And what’s the best case?

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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. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales.

Acquisition 123

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 123

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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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 75