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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

But also, as a sole founder, you also can make a decision in a very timely manner. Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. And, that was a product manager?

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. We spent most of 2017 building it out. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. It’s a lot about building those flows. Andrew Chen: Exactly.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sales enablement is easy.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. In 2017, Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad were all beginning to break out. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over.