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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. And I found in my experience that the path to relevance is its own sales cycle.

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

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In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today? Who are the new developers?

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. And we’ve already made a mistake hiring first VP of Sales. And already hired a VP of Sales, already fired a VP of Sales. New category. So he’s the CTO?

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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

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Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. What’s that going to do to your company? What does sales enablement motion look like? And guess what happened to all those mistakes, they were terrible. Henry Schuck: Right.