SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Three developers: Tim, Isaac, Jose.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 121

Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. AltiSales takes company culture quite seriously.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. So that’s easy.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

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? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. Investing in Employee Experience results in higher employee retention and increased performance. Development Programs. Development Programs.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2018

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. These create more meaningful relationships with people on your team, uncover what motivates them and as a result increase their impact and engagement in their current role. What’s your current development focus?

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 24, 2021

For either one, the bottom line is that the cost of a bad hire is significant. I’ve talked a lot about the hidden costs of a bad sales hire. Develop a bulletproof hiring process that celebrates candidate experience. Spend time with your team and buyers to understand their needs and potential blindspots.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

To scale an early-stage company, you need to focus on the following core areas of your business: Financial Core —to create a streamlined quote-to-cash process. Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Poor financial records are not something you can run away from. Invest in budgeting and forecasting tools.

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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. Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Aaron : And they just have to do it.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

I came back to North America, we built out the inside sales team in North America over the next five years, building hubs in multiple countries, including in Bangalore, India, and assembling a global community of practice. We would generate 10 X like what we invested into that based on those people. So it was a fabulous experience.

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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. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making.

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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. How do you think about that?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked?

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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? Loving our podcast content?

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Developer platform: a business where developers can build businesses on top of the business’s software and charge customers. The end customer is usually not aware this company even exists e.g. Stripe, Twilio, Amazon Web Services. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. Take them from the marketplace team.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Your registration. We’re doing office hours all day.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. Which ones are we bad at?

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 169

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. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What does this mean for the processes used by marketing teams?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

In my experience, getting caught up in shiny objects (like great numbers) during the hiring process is a straight line to Disasterville, and when the cost of a bad hire is painfully significant , it pays to take a measured approach. Also: What are the top performers in my current team doing? This is a team effort.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

But then people on the sales team started leaving. James’ sales numbers slowed dramatically as he was spending more and more time with the team. And finally, a big account left at renew time as the sales team struggled to come together. There is an allure to promoting someone from within, from your own sales team, to manager.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. We had a pretty big team.

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Harry Stebbings: Sorry, this is so unfair of me to go off schedule like this, but when you think back on only possible in the cloud, I think through every investment of mine is unbundling or bundling and try and very carefully be aware of which camp we’re in and why. In 2012, no one took Amazon seriously, really.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 254

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. Advice on How to Train [3:48].

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can teams do to bring their themes to life? As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. And so I started to build some of classic demand gen functions, like BDR team. I’m going to look at the buying team. Who is involved? What needs to be ready?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

And we’ve got this megaphone called social media, that every single customer can talk about a great product experience, and they can also talk about a bad one. For Slack, it was one that a team sends 2000 messages. We raised 30 million bucks, we can expand the team. I’ve worked with hundreds of teams on this.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. People are like, of course I do invest in Adyen, it’s a misspelling of his name, he’s investing in himself. And we basically still work that way.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? Stripe recently announced their 5th office would be… “remote”, so how does Parker feel about the building of remote teams? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team?

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale Systems Review 132

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Liat Bycel: Yeah, I think that career development conversation should be an ongoing conversation. Harry Stebbings: Totally.

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