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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. Hiring mistakes (at this stage bad hires can harm company culture). The third stage is when other people can see what you are doing and now other companies try to copy and destroy you ,” explains Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky. Scaling prematurely.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

Kyle Parrish: In that time, before I was even really focused on the impact of UI/UX or the design world at large, I started to realize we were selling against companies like Google and Microsoft and Box, and a lot of our sales pitch was around how intuitive the product was. Harry Stebbings: What is good sales rep productivity to you?