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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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They’re booking a million bucks a year and then the next person is doing $200k, and then, there are four guys that can’t close anything. When you hire a VP of Sales and all they want to talk about in the interview is strategy, strategy, strategy, I’m not sure they’re a closer. How do I increase pricing?

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Pete. After TalentBin was acquired, I ended up writing a book on startup sales and sales for founders called Founding Sales. So the entire book is up on the web, you don’t have to buy it. Harry Stebbings. Pete Kazanjy. My word, I’m so excited for this one.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

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I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. But, as it turns out over the course of time, what I didn’t realize is, I was in the process to try and hire every single engineer we had. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011.