SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. I was amazed by how big Salesforce was in the ecosystem.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And the end of 2012, or beginning of 2013, we actually met, and decided to start one called Pagar.me Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. Anu: And then the rest of the team? The first end team. Henrique: So, one, you need a team.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). SaaS companies now report 9 competitors on average , up from just 2 back in 2013. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. I got my masters in Computer Science and I had different roles since I joined tech companies in 2013, in different roles: product, design, engineering.” Again…Why?

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2021

What has changed in sales leadership since 2005 [8:43]. Today, Michelle leads a large team at HubSpot, which just came off a strong year, despite — or perhaps because of — the pandemic. Learn how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events and turns them into revenue. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Prior to Ometria, Pete has been growing SaaS revenue teams for almost 20 years. Outreach triples the productivity of sales teams and empowers them to drive predictable and measurable revenue growth by prioritizing the right activities and scaling customer engagement with intelligent automation. He lives with his family in North Wales.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So I had this idea for Mercury in 2013, but it didn’t start until 2017. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. You have to spend a reasonable amount of time, sometimes years, developing. I’m a big fan of keeping teams fairly lean at the start. Immad Akhund: Sure.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). SaaS companies now report 9 competitors on average , up from just 2 back in 2013. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). SaaS companies now report 9 competitors on average , up from just 2 back in 2013. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

And my first investment ever in 2013, in the old, old days, was Pipedrive which ended up selling for well over a billion dollars cash during the peak. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. You already raised money.

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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. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What is the ability of the company to continue to build an incredible team?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I mean, if you were a Johnson & Johnson, or you were any of these large manufacturers, you had one person or a tiny little team on Amazon, and that was it. And I think that depends on, first and foremost, that you’ve got a healthy sales team, with healthy sales leadership, and a healthy sales process.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eghbal offers a new taxonomy of communities — including newer phenomena such as “stadiums” of open source developers, other creators, and really, influencers — who are performing their work in massive spaces where the work is public (and not necessarily participatory). Foundation — where we talked about the changing culture of open source.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. Here’s an example of this thinking system in action.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The importance of leadership alignment and transparency during times of crisis. Why executive compensation should align with key business metrics for better team alignment. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. It was 2013 in New York city. So 2013 was sort of this era.

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FastSpring

JUNE 2, 2025

A brief history of FastSpring, with some fantastically nostalgic photos of the team throughout the years. A Brief History of FastSpring (With Photos) FastSpring was founded in 2005 with only $30,000, by a distributed team of four tech founders who only all got connected through the transitive property, Dan explains. Jump to podcast.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2025

In addition to his product leadership, Oji is the founder of Kernel Fund, an early-stage fund supporting startups across Africa. He writes about product, growth, and leadership at his newsletter Product Mind and is the author of the upcoming book Building Rocketships a guide for high-growth product teams.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. Where do many people go wrong?

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