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.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Tables have turned because I first met Mikkel when just after I was working for previous fund index, he had just invested. Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. So I am here, I guess, about 7 years after we first met. It was 7, 6 years. Obviously that’s not really so relevant today.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

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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.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding. powered by Sounder.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. One of the early co-investments with my prior firm in Bessemer was in Shopify. If you look at companies like Cornerstone OnDemand, which we invested in a long time ago, it took them some time to get to 100 million of ARR. This is really founder-led sales.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. So, not that many people have started so early in the career, so long in the space, and great investments that we know like Datadog and Fastly, and good at it. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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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. Second team there worked on data engineering.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. The lack of self awareness is real.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. Instead of marketing, Zoho invests in R&D and customer service. Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. Freshworks. Paperflite.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Most leaders don’t spend enough time recruiting. It helps me make better investment decisions around software. The only way you could learn about a new car was by going into the showroom, speaking to a sales rep and getting sold. If you enjoy our conversation, check out more episodes of our podcast.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

Dharmesh Shah : As part of that exercise, I did some data collection, and we created this deck called the HubSpot Culture Code, which has exactly 128 slides. It’s where data goes to die. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” ” And I said, “Well, yeah, Netflix, right? .”

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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

JULY 10, 2020

The first will be sharing five perspectives and things that I found to be useful in adjusting sales in the midst of a crisis or a turnaround. ” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this, then that. It’s really to rally around facts and data as opposed to opinions. E-commerce is on fire.

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