SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR. Fixing it yourself becomes the biggest time sink and excuse for not hiring there is. You end up spending all your time backfilling roles you should have hired. And even worse, you often sort of give up trying to make the hire. Less and you under-invest. More here.

Part-Time VPE 277

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 277

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? How does this change when selling to SMBs vs enterprise? * Does it have to be tied to a number related to revenue? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

Scale 185

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 185

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. Seventy-six percent of the 3,500 brands are below a hundred units. We had to say: what does SMB want? Gabby: We probably track 50 to 60 KPIs, so I’m not going to multiply that times four.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Customer Success VP of Engineering CTO Hire 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Gaetan Gachet : All right, so usually the way I start this session is I ask the crowd which revenue stage they’re in. So when I joined we’re pretty much pre-revenue. So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. One and 10?

Scale 146

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 146

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Erica made her way into the world of SaaS and came to be Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic. Welcome to Episode 214!

Scale 175

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 175

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Loren, among other things, has spearheaded Shopify Plus, which is Shopify’s enterprise platform from the early days, to now announced today almost 30% of the revenue. Is it wanting to control their brand? What’s the interaction here with owning your brand and owning your channel versus a third party?

Payment Methods 206

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 206

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.

Sales Hiring 242

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale Investment 242