Churn Leadership Sales Sales Recruiting 
SaaStr
JANUARY 27, 2021
We’ve talked a ton on SaaStr over the years on how to make sure your VP of Sales and top hires really work out. We can pretty much summarize a lot of it into the following: Your VP of Sales should have lots of experience selling at your average ACV. for that type of sale. That they are the right ones. Ask who they are.
SaaStr
MARCH 20, 2024
They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. On the sales side, people hired way too much. More salespeople do not equal more sales. Sam just finished 18 months at Founders Fund after joining in mid-to-late 2022.
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OpenView Labs
DECEMBER 16, 2019
So if scaling your sales organization is a priority in 2020, here are the things you need to be aware of to make sure you do so successfully. In my experience both as a salesperson and as a recruiter, it’s primarily been four things: They want the work they’re doing to matter to them. Hiring sales leaders will get harder.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
For example, a great Stretch VP of Sales might get you to from $50k to $500k a month in new bookings. Churn that stops decreasing. Churn should keep coming down, at least a bit, until it’s top quartile at least. When you see bookings, leads, churn or feature velocity flatten — that’s a flag.
SaaStr
JANUARY 24, 2024
How do you diagnose and solve churn? Sales reps were hosting 4-6 calls daily but most of these calls were early demos or top-of-funnel discovery calls Sales was closing really small deals on one end while talking to really large companies with hundreds of thousands of people on the other. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?
SaaStr
AUGUST 7, 2020
A few factors that contribute to high-performing sales teams: High quota attainment. The best startups invest in their sales teams and work hard so most of the reps hit and exceed quota. Turning over a sales team is very hard on the organization. A great VP of Sales is worth her weight in gold. They have low attrition.
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 20, 2022
Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.
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