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PODCAST 146: Why Following Your Passion Is Bad Advice (and what the good advice is) with Callie Moriarty

Sales Hacker

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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PODCAST 121: Lessons From Survival Mode: How to Kickstart Your Business with Matt Rizzetta

Sales Hacker

His wife was pregnant with their first child, and he went out on a limb to try his hand at entrepreneurship. What we’re going to be talking about is, of course, entrepreneurship since you started on North 6th. Sam Jacobs: Have you developed a process to answer that question of should you hire, should you fire?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

SaaStr

Does David agree, “entrepreneurship does not get easier with time, it just gets different”? How does David think about scaling sales teams? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. Do you need business development reps? So apologies for this one.

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Venture capitalist Harry Stebbings on getting into venture

Intercom, Inc.

Not long after starting the podcast, Harry got into investing himself, and in 2020, he leveraged the success of his show to launch his own venture capital fund, 20VC fund. I love media, I love content, and I love the team here. You probably will be quite bad when you start. I get quite bored doing one thing only. ’ What?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

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!). My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers. And yet – even when they work harder – they get paid less.