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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so many of my classmates couldn’t get jobs, I had done my summer internship at Google and I remember getting the call from Google, my manager at Google saying, “Hey, we’ve decided not to extend any of our summer internships full-time offer, because again, it was 2008. Michelle: Yeah. You need a team to go really far.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. This episode is an excerpt from Aileen and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. 347: Ready to hire your first VP Sales? 346: Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor. But haven’t done it before?

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The $8 trillion opportunity

ProfitWell

Blake Bartlett over at OpenView , the expansion-stage venture capital firm, chatted with me a bit about product-led growth. And you claim that sales should be hired last when dealing with a product-led growth initiative. In product-led growth, product leads and sales follows. How can you do better inside sales?

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, it’s like in healthcare, one of my friends who’s a doctor says she feels like she fell asleep in 2020 and woke up in 2030 in terms of … Jason Lemkin: Yeah, I bet. But folks that come out of the traditional folks where we poach… I mean, once you scale, you want to hire someone to set up [inaudible 00:31:06].