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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Audience Member 2: And so the C-60 is the one that gets communicated, the team is like on-. And in January of 2020, the CDC put out an email that said COVID might be an issue for travel. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO.

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SaasOps Stories With Joseph Fuller, Head of IT at Deputy

BetterCloud

Joseph Fuller is the global head of IT at Deputy , an all-in-one workforce management solution that simplifies employee scheduling, timesheets, tasking, and communication. We were days away from signing a big contract with an AV vendor to rehab the cafe space that we had to put on pause. It sounds really lame, but probably travel.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Be willing to travel. I’ll never forget about a quarter into selling customers for the first time, we had this deal that was just stalled. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. I had a good sense.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

With the scaling of departments and teams, what has Erica seen work really well when it comes to making cross-functional teams communicate really well? What are the inflection points where Erica often see communication or process begin to breakdown? How should compensation plans be altered with the move? I came back to North America.

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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

SaaStr

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.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, unimaginable, impossible. Check them out at www.outreach.io. So what do we do, right?

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From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. RingCentral is a unified communications as a service space, UCAS. Jonathan : Travel. Vlad : Yeah.

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