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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

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343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

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How does this requirement change as the company scales? How does Karl think about working with recruiters? I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school.