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. You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. PLG is like the Cloud.

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Scale Sales Hiring AI Sales Recruiting 241

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! On Wednesday, March 11, we’re bring the CIOs and CXOs from Adobe, Intuit, Google Cloud, Nutanix, Zendesk, Zoom, Box, Pagerduty, Coupa and 100s more together with 150+ CEOs that sell to the enterprise and are at $15m+ ARR. The headline metrics: 15,000+ attendees.

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New CTO Sales Recruiting CTO Coach Scale 257

SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

2019 saw SaaStr Annual’s biggest event yet – 12,000 global community members came together to take over the Bay Area and it became the event Where the Cloud Meets. Founders were able to recruit on-site. total attendees, e.g., a CEO + a VP of Sales and a VP of Customer Success, or two Co-Founders, or CEO + CTO, etc.

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Scale Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO 281

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. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?” This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 171

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’re already in this like a new gen.” Justin Bedecarre: Right.

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 148

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. Our company, we basically unified communications in the cloud. UberConference started as this freemium, kind of funnel builder for later sales product. Dan : We’d start it with sales.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 173