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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

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Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. I co-founded Talkdesk in 2011. Talkdesk is a cloud call center platform for enterprise companies. And I have my sales team in France who’ve been through the great process.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

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343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked?

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

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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

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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. What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? Why does this have such a high rate of failure?

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SaaStr Podcast #342 with Zapier CEO Wade Foster

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This interview was recorded in February 2020. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Jason’s interview with Wade. But when you can’t afford domain names in 2011 because they’re all taken, you get the one with one P because that’s what’s available. This podcast is sponsored by Guru. Wade Foster.

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

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Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?