SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. PLG is like the Cloud. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician.

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Scale Sales Hiring AI Sales Recruiting 230

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

But as time went on, we shared lessons, what best practices were in customer success and revenue retention and all these things are, right. They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. I don’t know.

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Outsourcing Services Banking CTO Hire New CTO 180

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? In just four years, Podium has raised almost $100 million, with annual recurring revenue increasing to almost $60 million.

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. ” We had to do that three times. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 162

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Most recently, he started and founded Upserve and grew it to become one of the largest cloud-based point-of-sale platforms for full-service restaurants in the US with over 10,000 restaurant customers and a payments platform processing over $12 billion in annual volume. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. Byron Deeter is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and is an investor in SaaS and Cloud. He co-authored Bessemer’s iconic cloud computing and state of cloud report. Casey Winters. David Skok.

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VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10