2012 Sales Recruiting Startup Underperforming Technical Team 
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. You were the shoulder I would go and cry on anytime I would have some sort of executive-level problem or executive recruiting problem. Working sessions. Talent in 2024.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. Read the Ultimate Guide to Hiring a Great VP of Sales ebook or What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One blog post.
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Andreessen Horowitz
DECEMBER 5, 2023
This was in 2012, and we were based in New York City. And in 2012, if you’ll remember, that was when they kicked all the Zuccotti Park protestors outta Zuccotti Park. But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. And so we did that a lot.
SaaStr
MARCH 26, 2019
Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).
SaaStr
APRIL 23, 2019
Opening video: Hey, all these startups, they have a lot of trouble getting corporate credit cards. Anu: So, without further ado, Henrique, I know that when you first applied to YC, you actually applied with a VR startup idea, but the video showed all about credit card. Interested in sponsoring? Let us know. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.
SaaStr
MARCH 18, 2019
Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014.
SaaStr
JANUARY 28, 2020
And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”
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