SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich, Developer Success Manager Betsy Calender, and VP of Developer Experience Zeno Rocha share how to price your product for developers, how to market it to developers, how to how to support them as they scale and use the products. Bottom-up sales. The contract size grows. Doing Business with Developers.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Part-Time VPE 187

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. That was the question posed to Rachel Hepworth.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale Investment 245

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. That just creates a flywall effect.

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Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 158

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion.

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Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016.

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

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. It got much better over time. A SaaStr Classic!!

Part-Time VPE 229

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 229

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. That was the start of the Month of Scale. Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started.

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CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 125

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. Oh, and do all of this with less time. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes.

Marketplace as a Service 96

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 96

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

From Freemium to Product Qualified Leads and Product Led Growth. Pricing in a Time of Uncertainty. The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. Intercom’s Des Traynor offers a framework for viewing pricing and customer targeting to segment sales processes more efficiently. Product Strategy for Scale: Pricing.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

The thing about growing fast, you always think about how to get more customers, more prospects. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. But also, as a sole founder, you also can make a decision in a very timely manner. If you do that, you’re in user focus.

Sales Hiring 129

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 129

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. We also measure NPS, and we benchmark that across all acquisitions. Q: Based on your acquisition experience, are for-sale businesses focusing on the customer and NPS? You run the gamut.

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CTO Coach Customer Success VP of Engineering CTO Hire 52

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. And in parallel we went off and build SteelBrick.

Sales Recruiting 170

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 170

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

A technical co-founder or CTO is always a great-to-have at this stage and becomes a must-have as the business scales beyond seed. Economics and Acquisition ?? Early signs that sales and marketing can scale: At the seed stage, we usually see founder-driven sales as opposed to a well-oiled sales machine.

Marketplace as a Service 59

Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We focus on Series A, and we only make a small number of investments, probably four or five a year, precisely because like to work very closely with the companies that we invest into to really help you scale out of Europe. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up.

New CTO 145

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 145

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

What about the ROI of spending time with your family, friends, or kids? That’s what David Apple—customer success and sales guru at Notion— is asking. How many CSMs should you hire? On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without.

Scale 43

Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why outbound prospecting is difficult [11:45]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes. The result?

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Scale Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Consulting 71

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Software as a service or SaaS has been growing as a leading software distribution model. He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. Brad Feld is an active investor in the leading technology and software space. Asia Orangio. Ben Murray.

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VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10