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Master the Art of Knowing Who to Call and How to Ask with Tito Bohrt

Sales Hacker

Tito explains when it makes sense to prioritize customer acquisition vs. retention and vice versa. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Company : AltiSales Noteworthy : Tito is an expert in sales development and all things sales. I started in 2011.

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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

SaaStr

I co-founded Talkdesk in 2011. Talkdesk is a cloud call center platform for enterprise companies. Right now the company is more than 300 people based between Lisbon Portugal and Porto as well in San Francisco. We are looking for talent acquisition people because we don’t have enough people in the H.R.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve been a company since 2016. I’ve been with the company since 2011. As far as I know, the mission of the company has been the same ever since the start. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011. This was what Eventbrite was in 2011 when I started.

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SaaStr Podcast #212: Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight Discusses Why Burying Customer Success Under Sales Does Not Work

SaaStr

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash.

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Mallun Yen : So, let’s start with being a solo founder, because it’s incredibly hard to start a company. Eric Yuan : Yes, when I started the company in 2011, I was already 41 years old, but I still feel that I was very young. Eric Yuan : So, when you start a company, every company’s different.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

I always think of good acquisitions like relationships with both parties really weighing up the pros and cons and deciding to unite. When you kind of thinking of the acquisition and the merging of two great companies and cultures because I know that you kind of created a new value set for the new kind of pro forma company to adopt.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

I was the 12th employee of a test prep company that grew to close to 200 employees by the time I left, joined Twitter when they were really starting to build out the sales organization in early 2011, as the first sales manager hired, and after being there for over six years, I really missed the building stage of the company.