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The Pros and Cons of the Backdoor Search

Kellblog

. “Search” can mean anything from networking with replacement CXOs referred by your network up to writing a $100K+ check to Daversa , True , and the like. “Terminate” can mean anything from walking the CXO out the door with a security escort to quietly making an agreement to separate in 60 days.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. We are the soldiers companies are trying to recruit to help them win the battle for talent. The talent. Mid-stage startups.

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Hello Sydney – a giant leap for Intercom’s remote APAC team

Intercom, Inc.

I joined intercom remotely two years ago as the first person in Sydney, and since then we have scaled the APAC team (lovingly referred to as the APAC Alliance) to almost 20 people across 4 countries. To enable that, we built out a distributed team around the world with a handful of teammates sprinkled across APAC working remotely.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

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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Beyond $1B ARR: Lessons from Zendesk on Why the Cloud is Unstoppable (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

But there’s a very real reason why so many software entrepreneurs now refer to themselves as “makers” or “creators”—even in a role as technically oriented as software engineering, there’s a remarkable amount of artisanship and thought that goes into bringing something new into existence. I needed a disruptive idea.