Kellblog

AUGUST 19, 2022

As someone who’s recruited candiates, been recruited as a candidate, and even once hired via a backdoor search, let me say that I don’t like them. Think: so, this company is shooting their CMO and that person doesn’t even know it yet? They tie the recruiter’s hands behind their back.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

So, let me just share with you what a rogue former marketer as done with a culture and people ops team, and how we approach culture, and how we measure it at HubSpot. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” ” “Our benefits are terrible.”

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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%.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. Now, Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that helps make the Internet more secure, fast, and reliable, with a market cap of more than $6B. And today we’re about a six, $7 billion market cap company. It’s still really hard.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. 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. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

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