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Scaling A SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Scott Pugh, VP of Sales at Figma (Pod 639 + Video)

SaaStr

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.

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Top 10 Mistakes Getting to $100M ARR with LaunchDarkly’s Co-founder Edith Harbaugh (Pod 668 + Video)

SaaStr

Lesson #1: If You Aren’t Making Mistakes, You Aren’t In A Startup If you do things that always work and maintain the status quo, you’re likely at a major company like Microsoft. They hired their first VP of Sales with a wonderful pedigree and experience at some of the hottest startups. because they needed to rebuild the sales team.

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Scaling from 2 to 200 Employees and 0 to 75,000 Customers with Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer and VP of Operations Lydia Kothmeier (Video)

SaaStr

Storyblok started with a leadership-first hiring plan and a recruitment strategy that involved the following: A test to know how candidates handle different tasks and their expertise level. Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team. Outbound: including Account Based Marketing (ABM).

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CRO Confidential: Principles that drove Wiz’s $0 to $100M Journey with Wiz CRO Colin Jones (Pod 665 + Video)

SaaStr

Today, Wiz is one of the highest-valued private tech companies, at $10 billion, as announced in Feb 2023. Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. CROs should focus on capturing that unrealized demand which is not a sales-led effort.

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Things That Are Different As A More Experienced Entrepreneur

SaaStr

I’ve also invested in 24+ next-generation SaaS companies, mostly successes, and had a chance to watch and learn from them as well, with a new lens. And paying a little more for a lot more experience can be one of the top investments you’ll ever make. Sales — Not Easier. I’m not.

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How to Train Your HR Department to Hire Quality Sales Reps

Sales Hacker

There’s one thing recruiters are unanimous about. It’s that sales representatives are one of the toughest positions to hire for. The demand for sales reps is one of the highest of any job. Our recruitment team at EASI has gotten really good at this. Sales courses are largely absent from college curricula.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?