Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Dan Fougere , CRO of Datadog. Dan is a 20+ year veteran of technology sales and has seen 4 of his last 5 companies become unicorns. Dan talks about the key qualities of great sales leadership and how to be an effective executive in addition to being a great sales leader.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Tom Williams , Cofounder and CEO at DealPoint. DealPoint is the first sales platform for customer-centric sales teams. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. But the ultimate milestone isn’t the contract. We’re on iTunes.

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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 Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to The Sales Hacker Podcast. Now, without further ado, my interview with Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. What You’ll Learn. Career paths are rarely linear. We’re on iTunes.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

Here are the top 15 venture capital podcast leaders shaping the industry with their visionary and thought leading podcasts covering a range of topics from startups, investments, trends, interviews, and more! Hoffman hosts a podcast named Masters of Scale where he interviews a new founder every episode.

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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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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%. Harry Stebbings. Bridget Gleason.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Sales Hacker Newsletter has now merged with The GTM Newsletter to make one of the largest newsletters in the space. As always, you’ll hear real stories/strategies/tactics from real revenue operators spanning: sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. Needs more pre sales support.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. That was followed by the undecided (24%) leaving only 13% of participants who voted against the motion (believing that Sales should own the renewal).

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Automation in infrastructure can lead to pretty serious blunders. If you are a regular listener, you’ll know that we interview makers and doers from the worlds of product management, design, startups, and marketing. And now for something completely different. The core of algorithms and systems is data models.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Come and hear about the typical pitfalls (and how to avoid them) from Pat Poels, an executive with over seven years under his belt leading Eventbrite’s now 300+ strong engineering team that sits across North America, South America, and Europe. That was the area of the company that I was leading. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Yousuf made his way from the UK to the valley and how that led to his becoming one of the leading CIOs today in the rising prominence of CIOs in enterprise. * It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. You got 37 the first go-round.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 24, 2019

As a recruiter, I hear from many founders and sales leaders regularly about how many salespeople they need and how quickly they need them. And I’ve seen many startups who fail to make this distinction create a cycle of diminishing returns that impacts the trajectory of their growth for the long haul… especially in enterprise sales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. At Snowflake, he was the first rep and single-handedly built the outbound-engine on the way to scaling the business from pre-revenue all the way past $150M+ in ARR.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did John make his way into the world of SaaS over 2 decades ago and how did that lead to his running a $3Bn ARR business line at Adobe and lead to his joining Domo?

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While more and more CS leaders are catching onto the value of having Customer Success Operations, they still face challenges in both convincing the C-suite of its need and finding qualified people to lead the function. I had an intern that was helping me, so she quickly learned the platform, and then was able to scale it across all the CSMs.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Paul. I think one challenging thing is when you look at the scale of organizations and you think about change management with new tools.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nicole Wojno Smith , the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io. She also founded and leads the Atlanta Chapter of Revenue Collective. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. This was the main point in Jacco van der Kooij ’s keynote Sales as a Science. doubling the number of leads).

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 17, 2019

And unfortunately, on more than one occasion, I’ve seen this FOMO cause them to lose remarkable salespeople and sales leaders that were previously beyond excited to work with them. Here are three reasons FOMO is the kryptonite of high-growth sales organizations… and how to conquer it. hire them immediately. How did you feel?

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. This was the main point in Jacco van der Kooij ’s keynote Sales as a Science. doubling the number of leads).

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: We’ve got an interview with a friend and a great entrepreneur, AJ Bruno, the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Stream the Episode Highlights From The Interview 1.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. Anna Khan | VP @ BVP.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 3, 2020

We see too many promising companies trapped in the low (and unprofitable) part of a market because they did not design pricing to scale. That said, how do you prove that you have a better CX before the prospect has made a purchase? It has to be easy to get started, to get initial value and then to scale.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. And I think part of it is because it was the job prospects were kind of gloomy. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And we make the internet faster, safer, more reliable for a lot of people.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. How does Liat think about challenging the traditional sales model? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Liat Bycel or you can jump to the transcript of Jason’s interview with Loren.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves. Along with our marketing software, along with our sales software.

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