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. Working on your own also makes you incredibly resourceful.

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 205

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The team is typically highly cross-functional, working together with sales, product, engineering, and marketing, and the goal is to help the other teams make better decisions through data and financial modeling. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS.

Scale 177

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 177

SmartKarrot

JULY 27, 2021

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Turn/River Capital As a Head of Customer Success, you will work with the leadership teams at 2 to 3 of the Turn/River portfolio companies to develop and implement retention and growth strategies and build operational best practices.

Development Team Review 10

Development Team Review Technical Review Customer Success Systems Review 10

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.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. For example, if the product isn’t up to snuff or if the onboarding process is just a bit rough, even perfect execution by the sales and marketing teams will yield lackluster results. I’d need to learn to raise capital and recruit developers.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

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 195

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 195

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.

Sales Recruiting 79

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 79

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. We are seeing platform shifts from how they traditionally run their infrastructure and services and business to seeing them run that stuff on AWS. Like anything sales, now we do sales tools too, to marketing, all these other things. That’s a lot.

Cloud 186

Cloud Sales Recruiting Scale AWS 186

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.

Sales Hiring 209

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 209

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 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. More sales meetings, start creating better sequences faster, go to go.regie.io

Scale 107

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 107

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. Chris walks us through his habits, his principles, and his system for enterprise sales. How to manage your career to solve for upside. What You’ll Learn.

Scale 65

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 65

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. This is really founder-led sales. It is staggering.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

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 137

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 137

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.

VP of Engineering 74

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. And that was an important shift, I think, for our leadership team.

Scale 132

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 132

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?” As a team together.

Sales Hiring 172

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 172

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” Along with our marketing software, along with our sales software. Katie Burke: I mean it’s really hard, and the reality is it needs to be someone that your leadership team respects, listens to, and responds to. And I sort of understand that.

Part-Time CTO 262

Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 262

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?

Sales Hiring 110

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 110

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.

Scale 188

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 188