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Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And the end of 2012, or beginning of 2013, we actually met, and decided to start one called Pagar.me And can you talk a little bit about touching on the hiring point, because you did say that you focused a lot on talent, and recruiting. ” But it was basically for awareness, and recruiting, and we thought it was a good investment.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. The first steps to transforming your support team into a revenue team are to rethink your metrics and incentivize teams to ask “Why?” That was one of our first aha moments.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

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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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2013. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2013.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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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Benchmarking LinkedIn's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

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. Recruiters buy Talent Solutions to find, connect with and acquire talented people. In 2007, online sales generated 63% of revenue.