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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

How Did We Get Here — OpenAI OpenAI started as a research lab in 2015. Scale Sales Enablement At OpenAI, they’re hiring so rapidly that they need to find a way to get people comfortable with the new products and language of AI. The goal seemed outlandish and lofty, and the founders were laughed at.

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The GTM AI Operating System

Sales Hacker

This marks the second pre-seed investment into Mannys companies that GTMfund GP, Max Altschuler, has made – first into Outreach in 2015 and now into Paid in 2025. The State of Sales & Marketing Alignment Report by Mutiny: Discover how top companies are using personalization to drive higher growth.

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The 2019 SalesTech Landscape: What’s Hot and What’s Not Today

Sales Hacker

While Salesforce Ventures continues to invest heavily in the space, Salesforce’s last major acquisition was Steelbrick in December 2015. Last September, it introduced High Velocity Sales for inside sales. Showpad , with the acquisition of LearnCore and Voicefox, is trying to do the same for Sales Enablement.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Drift was launched in 2015 just when SaaS applications started taking off in a big way. These tools, besides their functional prowess, harvest data to create sales enablement information, intent metrics, and other valuable insights. Best For: Revenue Acceleration. The rest is history.

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PODCAST 18: How the Right Onboarding Plan Can Turbocharge Revenue Growth

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we feature Roderick Jefferson, a leader in the sales enablement space to talk about sales enablement and onboarding new sales reps. If you missed episode 17, give it a listen here: PODCAST 17: The True Secrets to Successful Enterprise Sales. What You’ll Learn.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredibly growth, but it was growth off a small base, based off very early adopters. There’s a separate team that does sales support and enablement. Because until then, at least publicly, it hadn’t really been talked about as something that Slack was going to actively pursue.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was in late 2015, it’s about five years after really succeeding with this online platform and evolving it and taking it into businesses all over the world. So our sales enablement model evolved and changed, and all of it ended up producing better results. It was a board meeting I’ll never forget.

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