SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The team is typically highly cross-functional, working together with sales, product, engineering, and marketing, and the goal is to help the other teams make better decisions through data and financial modeling. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS.

Scale 165

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 165

Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2019

when interviewing for a sales position? You answered the sales interview questions in a way that made you look like a winner. In this article, we’re going to review the 27 most common sales interview questions, PLUS the types of answers your interviewer is looking for, so you can raise the bar on your interviewing skills.

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Sales Recruiting Interviewing Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 21

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 210

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

Merchant Services 178

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 178

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. And there are basically two sales models out there. Kind of extreme sales models out there for SaaS businesses.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 227

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. We are seeing platform shifts from how they traditionally run their infrastructure and services and business to seeing them run that stuff on AWS. Like anything sales, now we do sales tools too, to marketing, all these other things. That’s a lot.

Cloud 182

Cloud Sales Recruiting Scale AWS 182

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

Sales Hiring 194

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 194

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. One moment, 10:00 AM, 90,000 tickets go on sale.

Engineering 128

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 128

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Most leaders don’t spend enough time recruiting. The only way you could learn about a new car was by going into the showroom, speaking to a sales rep and getting sold. To me that’s really authentic selling, but the reality is most sales reps don’t do that because they have really big targets to hit.

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Education Sales Hiring Software Review Sales Recruiting 123

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” And today, of course, we have a recruiting team. We have a great recruiting team and they partner with the hiring managers. And so those people need managers.

Sales Hiring 170

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 170

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. How did you take away from the business and actually spend time recruiting?

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Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 137

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” Katie Burke : So, I would encourage all of you to start now, thinking about the fact that homogeneity will be as viral at your company as any blog post you ever write. Along with our marketing software, along with our sales software.

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Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 256

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 107