SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

analyzing how often Directors and Executives are involved in the sales process. Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. Playing the right roles.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. They wanted to sell the Amplitude product, I forget, to sales or somebody else, and that was their mistake. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And the learning is sell two things to buyers.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. 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. So you were the first sales hire.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But promotional paths are a-changing, according to a time-series by Spencer Stuart summarized in Harvard Business Review’s “ Finding the Right CEO.” In 2020, that figure dropped by half to 38%. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up. Scaling a sales team is not for the faint of heart – for one, it’s not even that much about selling.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Heading into the 2020 planning season, SaaS FP&A teams are working to finalize 2020 budgets and planning. From speaking with a variety of CFOs and VPs of Finance recently, here’s what we are hearing they are looking for in their FP&A hiring, outside of traditional Finance, math, accounting and reporting skills.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2020

A VP of Sales and Success A VP of Sales and Marketing A VP of Sales and Anything Else. Is usually not really a VP of Sales. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 9, 2020. Sales managers back when I never managed sales. The ex-VP of Sales and Marketing. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds.

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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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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

is a much worthier investment for your 2020. The Athletic 's strategy for the past three years has been to hire top-talent journalists in the sports space, getting people to pay for high-quality journalistic content. Brendan Schwartz , Co-Founder and CTO over at Wistia, has spent a lot of time learning to trust his instincts.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. It allows companies to prove their real-time security posture just about any day of the year, so it accelerates their sales cycles and security reviews. billion in 2020, four times as much as in 2015. Caught your interest?

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2021

The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. Often folks they convince to once again be a VP of Eng or VP of Sales. But most of us are first-time founders, or close to it. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). It was an iPad interactive brochure and sales tool for sales centres. Sima Banijamali – Sr. I knew nothing about tech.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. They are expecting a discussion on security and scalability and so we have to bring partners to the table and there are some partners we work with that are more than willing to come into that sales conversation with us and these is other partners that aren’t. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. 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.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. Pricing in a Time of Uncertainty. The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. 2020 Update: SaaS Pricing Guide: When and How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers. 20 Pricing Page Best Practices That Will Increase Your Sales.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. Brian Halligan is the founder of HubSpot, one of the world’s leading SaaS products for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service. He is number 88 on The Midas List: Top Tech Investors 2020.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. QuikNode wants to see technology transform decentralized applications, smart contracts, decentralized governance, voting systems, and more. Table of Contents. There are so many things that can be evolved,” says Shklovsky.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And then there was this great workplace experience of 2020, which we’re still living now. So now we’re in this, like you call it, the great workplace experiment of 2020, where we’re forced to be a hundred percent remote. I need like sales, procurement, collaboration. We just never were able to solve for that.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. You can’t go and raise an A off that, and I think a good investor can also say, “Well, it’s a known that you can probably hire a good sales person.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. .” And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. Our second sponsor is Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform. We’re on iTunes. The result?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. And then the sale will commence as far as the people and this was, we were multiple millions of dollars of revenue until I took the first call. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Listen to Hang Black’s podcasts to learn about the future of sales enablement or how to lead with empathy. RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. Fixing visibility issues in your sales org.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.” And all of a sudden they’re like, “I guess, I could hire remote.”

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. They were telling me that what they were seeing in our motion, our go to market motion, what we were hearing from our customers, what we were hearing from our sales leaders didn’t sound like we were winning in the enterprise, and there was lots of evidence of that. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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