Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Wooden on Leadership. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Our bank account takes a hit. Selling to Big Companies. Top of Mind.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. Why was joining Okta the most challenging interview process he has experienced? Harry Stebbings.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution. Missed the session?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The keys to great leadership [18:24]. A more scientific interview process [20:35]. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Rob Jeppsen , CEO of Xvoyant and host of the Sales Leadership Podcast. Rob is a longtime sales veteran and is incredibly passionate about both the profession of sales but, more importantly, the importance of investing in your team through sales coaching and training.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Claire Johnson: If you don’t know us, I’d love to change that.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

How has Ryan structured his content and marketing team as a result? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Ryan. Ryan Sandler: And I discovered the world of income verification, mostly by talking to customers, people in HR, at banks, and realized how large of a market this is. Harry Stebbings. Ryan Sandler.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Karen.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Lara. He’s a real student of leadership and understands how companies need to scale and evolve as they reach the next level of their growth. ” He sees everything and the way he invests in helping you grow and develop and rise is really special. ServiceNow.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Well, you guys have probably all read Sameer’s bio and his resume and heard about the SendGrid Twilio journey, but I think the reason why I wanted to do this interview with him is because there’s some things that people don’t know about Sameer, which I think are interesting to note. Anna Khan: Awesome. I won’t lie.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Eyal Manor.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Vikas’ Journey from Sales Engineer to Managing a BD Team (22:20). Now, without further ado, my interview with Vikas Bhambri. Vikas’ background is sales engineering as a path into sales and revenue leadership. Vikas builds teams that follow this ethos. Show Introduction (0:09). Sam’s Corner (43:33).

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. the night before it was to IPO). So that was really the insight.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Outreach produces incredible industry leading events like their Unleash Conference and their city-by-city Unleashed Summit Series road shows which will resume once people are allowed to take road shows again, along with top notch, thought leadership content. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Matt Rizzetta.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There I transitioned into sales leadership. Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I want to lead and inspire larger teams while being a successful mother. . Andrea Johnson. Ang McManamon.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 17, 2022

As his Twitter bio reads, he quite likes “the beautiful mess of product development.”. Why does it matter for the business, for investors, for the community, or people on your team? Customer success, support, and sales teams can be great allies in providing good insights or helping make higher-quality decisions.

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