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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

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%. Loving our podcast content?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

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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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

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

SaaStr

Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. And so we started to work on this in 2009. So we started Cloudflare in 2009 and today we have about 1400 people around the world. So I’m going to answer your question with that frame of mind because I think back to 2009, and it was really hard to get a job.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” Katie Burke: 2009, I believe. Jason Lemkin: 2009. Along with our marketing software, along with our sales software. ” “Our benefits are terrible.” Because not everyone has a background in these issues, right? Dharmesh Shah: 100.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chris O’Neill and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.

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