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Why Now Is the Biggest Change in SaaS Sales in 15+ Years

SaaStr

2021 will be the year SaaS sales evolves the most since the Appexchange ecosystem started to take off ~15 years ago, which spawned the entire notion of a true sales app stack. The permanent move to distributed sales teams. Almost every SaaS VP of Sales and CRO I’ve talked to in the past few months isn’t going back.

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CRO Confidential: Improve Margins and Beat the Competition for Capital With Sam Blond of Founders Fund (Pod 603 + Video)

SaaStr

In 2021, there was much less focus on efficiency and more on revenue metrics like ARR. In 2021 there was a lot of emphasis on top-line revenue growth, what percentage year-over-year was the business growing, and less emphasis on things like gross margins and quality of revenue.”. A New SaaS Playbook.

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Don’t Hire VPs With The Wrong Titles

SaaStr

Dig deeper on a lot of titles during recruiting. A "VP of Revenue" often knows nothing about inside sales or building a sales team. A "CRO" often doesn't want to do sales anymore. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 22, 2021. A “VP of Revenue” for a VP of Sales job.

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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

SaaStr

Colin joined Wiz in February 2021 when the company was near zero revenue. Rather than seeing this as a liability, Wiz leveraged it as a strategic advantage — even in its sales team. ” This distributed structure created intentional communication patterns that might not have developed in a single office.

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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. For folks in SaaS, what got confusing in 2021 is that growth blew up so much in SaaS that the venture bar got lower. On the sales side, people hired way too much.

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Lessons Learned Rapidly Scaling a Team from 2 to 1100 People with Remote CEO and Co-Founder Job van der Voort

SaaStr

In 2021, they grew from 50 people to 650 people in one year, and now they have over 1,100 people in 170+ countries and tens of thousands of customers. Job still does interviews for everyone, director and up, but not for the ICs and managers of ICs, for the most part. So that support person, Mafalda, started doing sales, too.

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10+ LinkedIn Profile Tips to Stand Out in 2021

Sales Hacker

That idea might sound crazy, but it’s actually part of a new trend sales organizations are using to hit their revenue targets. Social selling is a way for sales professionals to use social media platforms to connect with prospects and start building relationships. These are our best LinkedIn profile tips for 2021.