OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Heading into the 2020 planning season, SaaS FP&A teams are working to finalize 2020 budgets and planning. SaaS companies tend to have more Finance headcount than traditional, non-Cloud companies. Median Finance headcount in private, growth SaaS companies averaging $25M is 7 Finance executives. Finance skill sets.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl structure the hiring process today?

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 236

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? We were hired into the same role, same start date, competed head to head. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. I met Molly, who was the COO at the time, Molly Graham.

Scale 239

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 239

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. And hindsight is 2020. Like our CTO did it. And we had real challenges with stability.

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Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 76

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I’m not going to claim to be the founder of Levelset, but that founding team, CTO, VP of customer experience, chief legal, our CFO, who kind of came later, but like that group, everyone stayed with the organization in executive roles the whole time. Let’s go hire somebody. I’ll hire the person.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 111