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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time?

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Customer Interviews: The Most Insightful B2B Marketing Technique Marketers Often Ignore

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Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

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Customer Interviews: The Most Insightful B2B Marketing Technique Marketers Often Ignore

Chart Mogul

Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

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Building a hyper-growth company is hard anywhere, but building one outside the Bay Area comes with its own unique challenges. Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter.

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

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Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

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And so, when thinking about yesterday’s workplace, which is really important to touch on before we get into the future workplace, you have built workplaces for some of the most iconic brands in the world; Pinterest, Zynga, Tesla, what has been your experience? What have you learned from building yesterday’s workplace?