Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. Starting Your International Sales Team. The key to starting an international sales team is having the right people in your landing team. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Missed the session? Listen on Spotify.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This trend leverages social media platforms to build connections and establish meaningful relationships with potential business prospects — and when it comes to social selling, LinkedIn is the MVP. This is your street credibility and personal brand all rolled into one. The ROI is insane. Literally millions of dollars.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Does your product-led growth strategy deliver on its promise to customers and prospects? . The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . How not to get funded.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

It’s interesting because we were a very small company and we were working with the largest companies in the world, so it still takes a long time, hence the of the four years. Felix : But I think what it has enabled us to do is to really become almost a market leader and build like a mini brand.

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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. When should a company associate with a marketing agency [12:19]. How to get better at sales [21:37]. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

I joined intercom remotely two years ago as the first person in Sydney, and since then we have scaled the APAC team (lovingly referred to as the APAC Alliance) to almost 20 people across 4 countries. Due to our rapid growth, we needed to scale the team remotely before opening an office.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 9, 2021

That used to mean welcoming them to the company in person but, like everyone, we’ve had to adapt to a new way of onboarding over the past year. It was also my first official week in the People Development Program Manager role, which certainly added to the challenge! “So, So, I guess we’ll be back in the office in two weeks, right?”

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2019

However, when researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford explored growth at more than 3,000 startups , their key finding was that premature scaling was the most common cause of failure. Given that the primary metric we measure growth in is revenue, it follows that sales feels growth more acutely than almost any other function.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

With teams spread across the globe, they had to find new working patterns to scale their businesses in a distributed environment. Wiz, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies focused on security solutions, was one of them. Today, Wiz is one of the highest-valued private tech companies, at $10 billion, as announced in Feb 2023.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

In a time where buyer behavior has rendered cold calling nearly obsolete, successful sales prospecting begins with using tools like live chat and social media to build relationships. He’d go on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, guiding the company through its own high growth period, before striking out on his own.

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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. That just creates a flywall effect.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. This episode is sponsored by TaxJar. It’ll be awesome to see you there.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. He was investing in internet companies.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

There are plenty of happy smiling recruitment videos for call centers on Youtube but the real data on how people feel can be found in the comments section. And at the call center I was at, the recruiters told me the job wasn't a sales job, just customer service. They also let you choose your own schedules after training.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Before LiveOffice Nick was Senior Director of Product Management @ Symantec where he led $378 MM market-leading email archiving / security businesses managing over 180 people across 3 continents. What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? Managing over 180 people across three continents.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 14, 2019

We know that it’s customers, not brands, who hold the power. At companies like LinkedIn, Lever and now Survey Monkey, she’s woven customer centricity deep into the fabric of the business – whether that’s in the process of product development, the company culture or how teams work day to day.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In the same way, you should build your culture for the long-term. It should last even as your company scales and grows. When designing your culture code, here are nine mistakes to be aware of. Mistake 1) Assuming everyone in your company is on the same page about the culture you're building.

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SaaStr

JULY 4, 2019

Matt Schatz is SVP of Sales at WPEngine, responsible for defining and executing the global sales strategy. Matt has nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in sales and customer growth, specifically for technology companies with customers around the world including Bazaarvoice, CityVoice and Rackspace.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of Marketing and Sales Strategy. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Amanda made her way into the world of SaaS and came to join Zendesk as their first marketing hire seeing the company scale to over 2,000 over the next 7 years. What are the inflection points?

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What fundamentally changes?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

For those that do not know, HelloSign is the company reimagining how you approach your most important business agreements with their award-winning e-Sign solution. As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale.

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2020

And so I think there’s more we can do to abstract away parts of that so you’re run of the mill sales rep or your run of the mill recruiter or whoever can just sort of step in and be like, “Automation is part of my tool set. ” Jason Lemkin: You do this at scale. It’s how I do my job. How do you-.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. Before that, Jeppe was the CFO @ Tradeshift where he first hand saw their scaling to 190 countries with offices in 6 different locations. Loving our podcast content? What changes? *

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