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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. ” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? Aileen Lee: … the industry’s willingness to adopt technology.

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

SaaStr

And today, of course, we have a recruiting team. We have a great recruiting team and they partner with the hiring managers. But even to this day, hiring managers are responsible for building their teams. And again, we have a much bigger organization today and the recruiters partner with them to build great people in.