SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2022

Scalability is about capability, so businesses need to understand whether they have the capacity to grow and whether their infrastructure and team can accommodate growth. The stage of scaling from $10 million to $100 million ARR may seem like a daunting task, but it is an exciting one. Turning a vision into reality.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Previously, Will was an engineering leader at Digg and then at Uber, where he scaled infrastructure engineering from a small team to more than 70.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Or perhaps you may need to leverage data to scale an existing marketing channel. Is the content insightful and communicated in a clear and concise manner (this also affects how they will communicate with you)? A Well-rounded Team. Clear Communication. Are they even creating content at all? A Solid Client List.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. Maria : Oh, I’ll take the number one thing to improve your culture. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. Maybe it’s just the wrong company for them.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

Unicorn companies often need to scale quickly to meet the demands of their rapidly growing customer base. Drift co-founders David Cancel and Elias Torres share their insights on steering a company to a $1 billion valuation. Lesson 1: Everything is about your team. Lesson 6: Pivoting isn’t a bad thing.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

SaaSy Sales Management runs in-person, public, and private workshops to teach go-to-market SaaS leaders how to produce the best outcome for their company and their people. If you missed episode 94, check it out here: PODCAST 94: Expert Management of a Remote Sales Team w/ Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn. Outreach has your back.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

In This Episode We Discuss: * How Parker made his way into the world of startups and SaaS, came to found Zenefits and what was that a-ha moment for the founding of his most recent company, Rippling? What does Parker do with regards to operational scaling that is unconventional but works? What do you look for in those hires?

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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. Matt is a friend of mine, but he’s also the founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. What were Steve’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at AppDynamics? Does it differ from traditional dev teams?

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

Mostly from other departments not communicating with us. A couple of them our team did. This is so trIue because I'm currently working at a call center and feel trapped, emotionally unstable, weak , I'm driving myself crazy and I don't want to talk to anyone. If you have patience and genuinely like people it’s not that bad.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

There are a few things that can be implemented: Remote Work Strengthen internal communication Allow for part-time positions A flexible/condensed workweek Our environment today has led many employees to rethink the importance of work in their lives and to change their relationship to it. And it’s bite-sized.”

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

There are a few things that can be implemented: Remote Work Strengthen internal communication Allow for part-time positions A flexible/condensed workweek Our environment today has led many employees to rethink the importance of work in their lives and to change their relationship to it. And it’s bite-sized.”

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Company Culture Compensation 10

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

There is also a direct impact on employee engagement, which is a key indicator of a healthy company culture. Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. Ask 10 people to define culture, and you’ll likely get 10 different answers.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 98

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? In practice, what can one do to improve it? Who has done this well?

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 131

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. And after a bunch of moving around, I ended up working in product development, actually, for a middleware company, and I did that for four years. ” But really, it was the team side of it.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. How does the structure of your marketing team need to change with the evolution?

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

Losing employees while following a merger and acquisition is normal, whether because of cost-cutting, economies of scale, or the chance to forge a new direction elsewhere. It is crucial to start by getting to know your new customer success team. Have a consistent compensation model for customer success teams.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Jeff Lawson is the Founder & CEO @ Twilio, the company building the future of communications allowing you to engage customers like never before on voice, SMS, WhatsApp or Video. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” Harry Stebbings: Can you guess?

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

We can look back at how Datadog scaled. Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? We hired everybody on our teams.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. How does this requirement change as the company scales? How does Karl think about doing this at scale?

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : And, you’ve done that with a number of your executive team, and, in fact, most of your executive team are the ones that you hired early on in the day. Eric Yuan: I think that you really need to communicate well before you hire those people. What’s your weakness? You really want them to learn.

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 131

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2010, he became one of the Co-Founders of Warehouse Investimentos, a prominent Brazilian VC company. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

For those in CS, what is the right communication cadence to check in with their accounts? How does Jon think about the structuring of roles and responsibilities with scale? 263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention.

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices. Customer success expert Lincoln Murphy advises that top-of-list candidates should include companies “ready, willing, and able” to join your ranks. (He

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. They know how to use the tools and run fully-scaled email campaigns. In this case, look for an email marketing agency that is exceptional at developing strategies and tactics to help increase your open and click-through rates. A Great Company Culture.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I look at my experience through those companies, and I learned a lot about enterprise software sales, about buying patterns, about functions like product management and product marketing, and how they fit into a well functioning and operating company. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Building a hyper-growth company is hard anywhere, but building one outside the Bay Area comes with its own unique challenges. Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. You can have beer, you can have a transparent culture.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

I hosted Elad on the podcast for a conversation that ranged from the key themes of his new book to scaling a healthy culture and ins and outs of mergers and acquisitions. Culture is the set of relationships people in the company have to each other – and the unwritten set of rules they live by – and it’s going to evolve over time.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Join this discussion to learn how to maximize efficiency within your company. Nobody ever build a social network for business on this scale. Work smarter, not harder. Is this good enough?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Editor’s note: This article is by Dan Slagen, a four-time startup executive specializing in scaling global go-to-market functions from early stage to $100M+ in ARR. Successfully working with the CEO of a growing startup requires that you perform at a level you might not be used to from past positions, company cultures or expectations.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 9, 2019

Too many people operate under the false assumption that the manager is the de facto linchpin to growing and developing the people within an organization. We charge managers with making sure their people get the right feedback, have detailed development plans, and progress in their career. Discover the Culture of Feedback.

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