SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

Scale 159

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 159

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. We work with many of the companies who are here at SaaStr, Salesforce, Slack, Twilio, Zoho, and I hope many of you in the room. Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 121

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 121

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do? Does it have to be in person? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. What questions reveal the most?

Scale 134

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 134

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 158

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. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. I was more of an engineer, MBA.

Sales Recruiting 174

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 174

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

While getting everyone on board with culture might feel exhaustive or you might feel like “that” company, it's the down payment for making a strong culture for the long haul. Takeaway: For a culture to be strong, everyone needs to be on board. Mistake 2) Solving for sameness (culture fit vs. culture add).

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? You’re facing extremely long sales cycles, which doesn’t really align with the quick results you want to have as a business. We also tap into the more payment ecosystem, and we have ways of earning money there.

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 127