Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

When new hires joined the APAC Alliance, they would fly to our San Francisco or Dublin offices for two weeks of onboarding, as it’s an awesome way to get immersed in our company culture, meeting Intercom leadership and new colleagues while experiencing our values first hand.

Sales Hiring 149

Sales Hiring Company Culture Scale Customer Support 149

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.”

Sales Hiring 211

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 211

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. Loving our podcast content?

Sales Hiring 202

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 202

SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

How Much Does Culture Matter, And How Do You Build One That Pays Dividends? We hear this everywhere — culture is everything. Company culture is a difficult thing to get right because it’s intangible, yet you have to establish it early. What does company culture do for a company?

Scale 192

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Cloud 192

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

And if you’ve just hired a cohort of 10 sales reps six months ago and everybody’s failing? The board doesn’t want people learning how to be VP of Sales. ” Where people say, “What kind of company are we? “Are we sales-driven or marketing-driven or product-driven?” ” Right?

Sales Hiring 121

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scale Startup 121

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 139

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 139

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 at the end of the day, that’s a leadership decision from founders of saying, “What kind of place do we want this to be for people to work?”

Sales Hiring 178

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 178