article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

SaaStr

After TalentBin was acquired, I ended up writing a book on startup sales and sales for founders called Founding Sales. Peter Kazanjy: Most of the literature is really for existing sales leadership or sales professionals, but not for people who have never sold before. So the entire book is up on the web, you don’t have to buy it.

article thumbnail

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

SaaStr

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. All of our ability to be able to make payouts to our creators or to make sure that our books close on time, month after month, after month, that all happens out of Nashville. I had one year of Spanish in high school.