SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. with Aashish Krishna Kumar, Head of GTM at Togai Sales Enablement 2.0 – Elevate Rep Performance with Divanshu Goyal, Sales at GTM Buddy Common scaling pains for SaaS businesses and how to overcome them.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

An AI co-pilot to an existing product? The upside is it’s much easier to sell than a truly distinct, second product, and one of the simplest ways to grow your ACV. ” If that works for your new product, sell it with your existing team. You really need a separate sales team almost on Day 1 here.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As the co-founder and CEO of leading fintech company, OakNorth , – valued at over 1 billion – he has revolutionized lending for scale-up businesses through advanced data analytics, providing fast, flexible financing solutions for SMEs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher. Show Agenda and Timestamps.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? Want to see more content like this session? Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. How can you automate?

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

The three worlds are: B2B2C B2B2B AI And then there are folks in impacted categories like ZoomInfo , where things haven’t really improved. And there’s AI. Jason tweeted WTF because many things are happening in AI, like 200x ARR rounds. A lot of the funding rounds for AI feel like 2021 again, but only for this subset of people.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. Technology helped us put a man on the moon, but the interface between the human and technology can have huge impact on whether or not we can take advantage of that, particularly at scale.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners. To learn more about Stax, visit staxpayments.com.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. But, one day soon, you’ll marvel at all the things AI sneakily helped pull off your plate. Because when marketing meets AI , magic happens. AI researchers typically take this one step further, though.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Experience is kind of the holy grail when it comes to customer interaction, from marketing and sales to customer service and brand loyalty. Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? Do I need to bring data from sales, inventory, and other departments into my marketing platform?

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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. Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. We had the first sales person. Eric Yuan: Yeah.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Mira: Both.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

X sales force, X meta. If you have the CEO, CTO, some executive chat through, here’s the big picture of the company. Why are you looking for a new job? Let’s find a new shirt. So I think there’s that and then there’s the wow factor. And some people really value brand names.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. Leading with honest, real-life conversation and perspective has served me so well over the years.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Everything changed in 2023 as automation became the focus, and then again in 2024 as full AI agents were rolled out across its customer base. Their rollout of AI customer service agents across 500+ top brands offers valuable insights into the future of automated customer support. Here’s the story – and deep dive.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

Here’s how Mosaic describes themselves on their homepage : Generative AI for All Easily train and deploy generative AI models on your data, in your secure environment. They build upon the solid foundation of open source / open data projects that come out of a vibrant AI open source community. What will the next move be?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They stayed on at Cisco for some time to scale Meraki within Cisco, but at some point, Cisco wasn’t for them. ” Sanjit attributes the early and continued success of the company to their ability to disrupt and scale within an evolving market space once considered largely overlooked.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. It’s disruptive.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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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. Brian Halligan.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. Topping the list of most-loved sales platforms, Apollo has a 4.8 The result?

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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. AI is driving the next wave of requirements.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally. The decision to invest is based on the founding team’s potential and their product’s potential to scale and become a significant market player.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. This episode is sponsored by Brex.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale.

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FastSpring

MAY 2, 2025

Managing Director Mathias Martinetz and CTO Thomas Kster knew their current online checkout setup having one solution for Europe and one for the U.S. Basically, each and every sale had to be manually organized and given to our tax advisor. was not efficient. And we had a lot of manual work, Mathias says.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 16, 2025

That’s why we’re thrilled to back Hammerspace and lead their $100m Series B, the company building a new kind of data platform - a parallel global file system with automated data orchestration for the AI and hybrid cloud era. Their CTO, Trond Myklebust is equally impressive.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Before that, he was the first non-founder seller at three startups, turning early traction into a repeatable sales motion. Discussed in this Episode: When to hire your first account executives Key traits to look for in early sales hires Structuring compensation for first sales reps Should you ‘hire the buyer’ to be your sales rep?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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Scytale

MAY 14, 2025

Non-compliance can lead to fines of up to 15M or 2.5% Martijn Brandse CTO & Co-Founder of Byner Book a Demo What is the EU Cyber Resilience Act? The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a new law aimed at improving cybersecurity for all digital products sold in the European Union (EU). A win-win, right?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Currently, he’s the founder of MartinRoth.com, specializing in helping startups scale from $1M to $10M in ARR. Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. Feeling that AI FOMO?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

38:33 The commoditization of technology in the age of AI. So you guys are open up a new chapter down there. And we’ve had conversations in the past where it’s like, you’ve got to build division, you’ve got to sell division, and then you’ve got to scale division. 26:59 The commoditization of funding.

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