Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Dennis started at Procore as EVP of Sales in 2014, before moving to the CRO role in 2018 where he was responsible for driving revenue across all customer-facing functions including Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Rev Ops, Procore.org and Business Development. 18:13) Overcoming HR pushback on programs for top performers. (28:35)

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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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

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. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. Then they found somewhere in like year 2014 and ’15 that they could layer in something like payments as an additional way to monetize their customer base. This is really founder-led sales. We call that a second act.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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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 25, 2019

But, there were a few things that were true about event bright and the environment and trying to hire in San Francisco in that moment. That meant that starting with 40 engineers in my team, I had to be able to hire six engineers every year just to stay flat. 18 hires a year I had to make in San Francisco.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In 2014, we shipped some bigger things. It was summer 2014. ” But the people we hire don’t come in to work to fix bugs, they come in to work to build things and make new things. Third swing: hiring vs. onboarding. The third pendulum swing is whether you should hire fast or hire more slowly.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. ” In the hiring committee meeting. I’m not just pushing to hire. I do my own reference calls.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Social selling became a buzzword around 2014 in the sales industry, and it’s already becoming outdated and ineffective for teams that use LinkedIn as just another inbox. LinkedIn profiles were meant to showcase your experience and expertise to recruiters and hiring managers. 1: Show Value in Your Profile.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

The challenge with that is you found a company, you start building a company, you raise money for a company, you hire a team to build the product for a certain type of company, and then the whole consumer changes and you have to adjust. In 2014, we threw away the entire code base and started from scratch. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit.

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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. David Schmaier: Sure.

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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. I would’ve had to hire IT staff to deal with hardware. Heidi Jannenga : When we’ve again, first started going out and looking for funding, everybody wants to amplify your sales strategy. They were very expensive.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Since Sameer joined SendGrid at CEO in 2014, the company has quadrupled its revenue, more than doubled its employees, experienced a successful initial public offering and was recently acquired by Twilio in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

It’s funny because Rachel came to us and said like, :Hey, I know we just had a meeting and we discussed, we need to hire a VP of engineering and a VP of product and a VP of marketing. But folks that come out of the traditional folks where we poach… I mean, once you scale, you want to hire someone to set up [inaudible 00:31:06].

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. How to hack your hiring process to drive scale. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. What You’ll Learn.

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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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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. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. Raising a $2.8 Salesforce.

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. 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. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today.

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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

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. On the one hand, you can’t really afford to hire salespeople because your CLTVs don’t justify it. Okay, so quite a few.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The people you hired, the culture you make, the first 10, 20 hires really make the rest of the culture of the company. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. We opened a small sales office in Wework. People make the difference.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And the wave we’re riding at G2, the wave we’re all riding here at Saster is this fourth industrial revolution which really means everything in business is being automated and companies rather than hiring people they are now automating everything.

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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. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

You may actually need to build a sales team that can serve up market. If you’re a sales force, if you’re a Workday, you sell to the C-Suite and you figure out who you have to go after within the C-Suite, and that works. The enterprise sales playbook that I had used in other companies just did not work at Dropbox.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2025

They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people the go-to-market engine. Do I have pipe coverage for my sales team? Like, how, how is my sales team executing against their quota? Thats where TriNet comes in.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Number two is hiring too quickly. The next big problem we see companies have post demo day is not establishing best practices around hiring. I’ve never met a founder who says, “Oh, I’m not good at hiring great people.” But you’re not going to be great at hiring. Google is not great at hiring.

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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

MARCH 13, 2020

Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. So fast forward to 2014, I was in LA and finalizing my visa application. Harry Hurst: Yes, so there’s an old adage, sales overnight, brand over time.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

The first will be sharing five perspectives and things that I found to be useful in adjusting sales in the midst of a crisis or a turnaround. And that’s the job that Evernote was hired to do. We also challenged the sacred cow, the assumption at the time, that the website was cannibalizing store sales, in the bricks.

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