Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2015

LinkedIn attracts hundreds of millions of consumers to post resumes online and sells this data and access to its audience to advertisers and recruiters and salespeople. The intrinsic data and people network effects of the business create reinforcing feedback cycles that have helped the business achieve tremendous revenue growth.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. However, back in 2013, in my previous career as a strategy consultant, I was doing a lot of work with telecoms companies in South Africa.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And so in 2013, the marketplace launched Udemy for Business with an eye on acquiring corporations alongside the nearly two million learners they had at the time. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. Then we look at that on the business side too.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

MongoDB have been awarded year after year as being among the best Big Data companies, and they’re not worried at all about taking on Amazon. Botify offer a unified, data-driven, and user-friendly marketing suite that combines technical SEO, content, and real rankings. Founded: 2013. Founded: 2007. Based in: New York.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. Chris is a 20 year Silicon Valley veteran having launched the first part of his career at EMC before finding his way to Snowflake in 2013. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

” Keith : And so in today’s world that can mean AI co-founder if you’re building a company that leverages data science. ” Keith : And so in today’s world that can mean AI co-founder if you’re building a company that leverages data science. You guys are awesome.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

” Keith : And so in today’s world that can mean AI co-founder if you’re building a company that leverages data science. ” Keith : And so in today’s world that can mean AI co-founder if you’re building a company that leverages data science. You guys are awesome.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

It was actually late 2012, early 2013 where we looked at the growth. We looked at the numbers, and in 2012 early 2013 when we said, listen. As we spliced the data and we really dug deep into the performance and the health of the marketplace, we realized that, you know what? These are sales goals. We looked at the numbers.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. I then stayed with Dell for three years, and left to start Guru in 2013. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. That was one of our first aha moments.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We know subscription is the business model of the future (or more accurately, the now), and VentureBeat reports McKinsey & Company estimating 1 5% of online shoppers signing up for one or more product subscriptions within the past several years—pegging the growth rate of the recurring revenue market from 2013 to 2018 at over 100% a year.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We want to hear your thoughts on it all—from content design to data sets. Patrick explores data from over 15k SaaS companies on what separates the average businesses from the unicorns and the benchmarks for a company built to stand the test of time. Look out for us in Ireland. Plus, Patrick's on lock to speak to the whole crew there.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

To sum it up, I believe the winners of this “installation phase” were the companies which managed to overcome these three challenges and which have picked the right early “use case” (sales pipeline management for Salesforce, content marketing for Hubspot, HR for Workdays…). The timing aspect is crucial. Various implications 3.1

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SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2019

That’s the situation Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta and CMO Anthony Kennada found themselves in when they joined the company that would become Gainsight in 2013. ” Or, “You are the next generation account management software.” They said, “You are the proactive customer support company.”

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

For roles like mobile engineers or data engineers, we tried to hire a database administrator for a long time and struggle with that. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition. The company was, their sales were quite a bit bigger than the other two companies. Second team there worked on data engineering.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. I’d need to learn to raise capital and recruit developers. I needed a disruptive idea.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Jason Lemkin: I made up a number just based on a very limited data set. ” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? The fact that a lot of our portfolio comes in enterprise, they got a lot of sales done or relationship building done around conferences whether it’s-. Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. I was amazed by the app exchange.

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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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

Founded in 2013, Inkitt is a cloud-based platform for readers, writers, and publishers. 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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