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Dear SaaStr: When Should The CEO Step Away From Sales?

SaaStr

Q: Dear SaaStr: When Should The CEO Step Away From Sales? It’s just, as you scale, what you do in the sales process as CEO evolves and changes. This was probably 2009 or so. Anyhow, my VP of Customer Success, VP of Product and I were in one small conference room working with the Sales Operations team.

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GTM 71: Writer CEO Tells All: Securing Enterprise Customers with a PLG Motion | May Habib

Sales Hacker

What You Will Learn: May’s perspective on the economy now compared to that of 2008/2009. Tips for recruiting the best possible team members and how patience factors into that. Highlights: (6:12) May’s learnings from Lehman Brothers and the economic crisis of 2008/2009. (14:11) Career insight from years of operating.

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

He moved the company to San Francisco in 2009. PagerDuty was founded in 2009 and recently began trading on the NYSE under ticker symbol $PD this April, seeing a whopping 50% pop in the stock right at open. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience. Henrique Dubugras Brex Founder/CEO.

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How to Find, Get, and Excel in Your First SaaS Sales Job

Sales Hacker

In 2009, I was desperate… I had just spent six miserable months trying to become a financial advisor after my dream career of being a spy for the DoD didn’t pan out. Nothing really stood out until I stumbled across a “Director of Sales and Client Relations” role with a company called Jammony. Director of Sales and love what I do.

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PODCAST 86: Strategic Vs Tactical Approach in Sales Planning with Mary Rogul

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

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PODCAST 94: Expert Management of a Remote Sales Team w/ Ellie Tamari

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ellie Tamari , the VP of North American Sales at Namogoo. Today we are incredibly excited to have a recent friend, member of the Boston chapter of the Revenue Collective, and female sales leader that came to the role somewhat later in life — Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn.