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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Why is this?

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

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The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Some of his first professional positions were Engagement Manager at McKinsey, as well as a management consultant at Value Partners. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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

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* 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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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

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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? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. .” Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Ryan Smith: No. That’s it.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

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Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And I just remember Matthew and Lee and I, and our team of the original eight people who really worked on this idea. Michelle Zatelyn | COO + Co-Founder @ Cloudflare.