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

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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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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

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Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

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

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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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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

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Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2009. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Founded: 2009. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

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

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

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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.