SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s 2021, but surprisingly, a significant number of SaaS companies still use outdated sales compensation plans. Salespeople are often compensated at the highest rate when they win brand new business, but that might not be good for revenue expansion and might contribute to churn.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Improved terms from the cloud service providers have contributed to margin expansion.” ” Microsoft is now compensating their salespeople for selling Snowflake more aggressively than in the past, perhaps as a competitive joust to Databricks. Microsoft will launch their Databricks competitor called Fabric soon.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Last week, I listened to a panel of IT professionals share their experience with software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud solutions. Instead these solutions for expense reporting, recruiting, asset tracking, or sales compensation management, for example, are used broadly, not by experts and not on a daily basis.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

There’s not that many people that have been the first salesperson in to managing a global footprint at a cloud leader. We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. Jason, you spent some time talking about like AE compensation. Kristen Habacht: Yeah.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. The first is: It’s the best proxy for AWS growth in the private markets.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, technology companies like AWS, GCP, and Snowflake offer no contracts for customers interested in using their self-service option or beta-testing the solution. Pay for performance compensation plan. Sales compensation. Ensure the sales compensation plan aligns with the company’s consumption pricing goals.

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