SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Rachel Carlson , Co-Founder and CEO @ Guild Education, the leader in education benefits offering the single most scalable solution for preparing the workforce of today for the jobs of tomorrow. Does having an exec and sales team in one place and the rest of the team elsewhere work? In my mind it’s a bit of an 80:20.

Education 108

Education Sales Hiring Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 108

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

In a time where buyer behavior has rendered cold calling nearly obsolete, successful sales prospecting begins with using tools like live chat and social media to build relationships. He’d go on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, guiding the company through its own high growth period, before striking out on his own.

Social Media 186

Social Media Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 186

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. And selling with passion. And no boring demos.

Sales Recruiting 168

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 168

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. And he’s like, “David, I want to start a company. I sat down with Kyle at lunch.

Sales Recruiting 164

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 164

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution.

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 132

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

How does this requirement change as the company scales? How does Karl think about working with recruiters? He likes to say that he did such a poor job at that, that we quickly turned him to a second job, which was, “Hey, we didn’t have a sales organization at all at the time and should we? Do we need a sales org?”

Sales Hiring 217

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 217

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

We have Guild education which really catalyzed and connected private spectrum response with their hashtag, Stop The Spread, getting over 1300 leaders to join in. And focusing on the most pressing urgent needs like PPEs, food insecurity, education, and of course, health.

Sales Hiring 286

Sales Hiring Healthcare Education Technology 286

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of Marketing and Sales Strategy. Harry Stebbings: And prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of marketing and sales strategy. I’d also run sales strategy for the company right before I left. You want to be heard.

Sales Hiring 107

Sales Hiring Communication Scale Interviewing 107

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2023

There are two types of SaaS companies in the world: those that are category creators and the challengers of incumbent technology. At SaaStr APAC 2023, Scott Pugh, VP of Sales at Figma, shared how to scale these two sales teams while building culture. Let’s look at five tips to consider for successful recruiting.

Scale 221

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scaling 221

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

And then the second question which you brought up, which I think is a tough one, which is if you hire someone that doesn’t have an HR background or comes out of a recruiting or other background, and they don’t have a background in diversity inclusion, how should you approach that as a CO and think about that? Can you fix that?

Part-Time CTO 259

Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 259

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Either you’re not spending enough time on the hiring side, or once they’re at your company, they feel like they can’t contribute, or it’s not a good place to work, or the culture is bad or something is broken. And today, of course, we have a recruiting team. And so those people need managers.

Sales Hiring 170

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 170

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. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

Sales Hiring 109

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 109