SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. So we tried to recruit people from abroad.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A sales rep completes their proposal and it’s automatically routed to the right manager for review and approval. Not only is that rep moving on to their next task, the pending approval is queued up exactly where it needs to be for the manager. There are pre-made blueprints you can use for marketing, finance, sales, HR, and more.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Since our founding in 2011, we’ve come a long way. We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. We focused on addressing customers’ specific challenges rather than a broad and generic sales pitch.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. In 7 years, this product has accounted for a valuation of $1.1 Customer Support. Raising a $2.8

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Founded: 2011. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2011.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Since 2011, over 500,000 projects have been built with PlanGrid. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps. Tracy Young : Hi, my name is Tracy Young. You hire a search firm.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Founded: 2011. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2011.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator. Prospects were confused over how the marketplace worked and the sales team struggled to explain it.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve been with the company since 2011. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. This was what Eventbrite was in 2011 when I started. That’s my walk up music.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Our blog has been around since around the time of Buffer’s inception in 2011, and production on the blog slowly ramped up as the team — and the product — grew. “In the long term, we want to look at metrics like MQLs [marketing-qualified leads], SQLs [sales-qualified leads], and revenue generated.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sales enablement is easy.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. Heidi Jannenga : When we’ve again, first started going out and looking for funding, everybody wants to amplify your sales strategy. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We schedule a demo in the same day.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

About: Another successful SaaS company serving thousands of happy clients since founded in 2011. This SaaS Company provides a dedicated solution for call centers and also for support and sales teams. It provides a range of digital tools, including its trusted cloud-based staffing and recruitment tool named Hello Talent.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Founded : 2011. Talkpush is a conversational recruiting CRM that allows employers and job seekers to connect in new ways across the globe. It also gives recruiters a faster process through its chatbot and application management tool. It is a platform for inventory and order management that helps owners and distributors.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

Founded in 2011, Orderbird is a catering company that specializes in meals and in-store retail catering. We know it for its award-winning Android and iOS POS (point of sale) systems to the food and catering industries. Besides providing tools for HR management and direct payroll, Personio helps businesses in recruiting processes.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. UberConference started as this freemium, kind of funnel builder for later sales product. Dan : We’d start it with sales. As a B2B enterprise company, sales was our first key.

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2020

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. But you want to zap stuff. That’s what you’re trying to do. You’re trying to zap things. I don’t know, so is Zapier. Jason Lemkin: [inaudible].

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

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?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Driving diversity at the sales executive level [1:00]. October is Women in Sales Month. To celebrate, we are highlighting some of the best moments and insights shared on this podcast by female sales leaders who are elevating the entire sales profession. We’re on iTunes.

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