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. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : It was a lot easier to invest to convince customers and investors and so we actually, I mean more of a European way of scaling a company. It made raising money a lot harder.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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. Investors are incentivised to put their money anywhere other than a bank. The second army are your main competitors. Money is cheap.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

How does the product and what you invest in proactively need to change as you move into enterprise? I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. What are the benefits of starting in SMB? We had a pretty big team.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

So essentially building the first operating system for corporate learning and development teams in bringing thought leadership community best practices around the LearnOps category. They recruit sports athletes, and offer a bunch of things for the sports athletes pretty cool. That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Todd Caponi , former CRO of PowerReviews about how to sell enterprise software solutions with increased transparency in the sales process. How to evolve your sales posture given the changes in sales conversations over the last 20 years. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

What ends up happening is, they think these investors are so smart, and they think these investors, because they like and want to invest in their company, their company must be amazing and it’s going to go on to become the next big thing. We had half a million in the bank. Who’s going to lead sales?

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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. This role can be recruited through headhunters or your network. Invest in next-gen finance tooling.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

I was just talking with Tracy about how when we make offers to people, in our offer documents we list out our cash balance in our bank account. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2019

So Plaid, we build the infrastructure that lets consumers interact with their bank accounts on the web. The core thesis behind it is banking was built for a world that didn’t envision the internet. And so what we build is the infrastructure that lets you programmatically interact with your bank account.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2020

Before entering the world of SaaS, May was a vice president at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, where she was the first employee on the technology investment team, building a portfolio now worth over $20B. May Habib: Well, I started my career in banking and then I moved over to the investing side.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2020

And federally backed student loans meant that basically you can get a loan from a bank, but the federal government guarantees it. If you default, the federal government will pay it off, the bank can’t lose. You lose sales you didn’t want to lose. It’s this afterthought of work. Let’s talk about that.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

I invest across consumer, B2B SaaS companies, and then also dev tools and infrastructure companies as well. It was a bank. I think it illustrates this lesson, which is the higher-ups at the bank, the leaders there said, we want to have really aggressive goals, and we want to measure them quarterly. These are sales goals.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. And that was an important shift, I think, for our leadership team. How did you take away from the business and actually spend time recruiting? It was an extraordinary … There were things that were very obvious even at the time.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We’ll have two full days of thought leadership content, networking opportunities, fantastic food, and fabulous evening events, all in the heart of Barcelona — snag your Europa 2022 tickets and catch up with us on the other side of the Atlantic this summer! Check out the full video and transcript below! No, I’m joking.

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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.

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