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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

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Be willing to travel. I’ll never forget about a quarter into selling customers for the first time, we had this deal that was just stalled. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. I had a good sense.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

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How should compensation plans be altered with the move? I do partially think that a travel book should be in the offing with those incredible travels. How does the structure of the sales team change with the move? How does the role of marketing change with the move to enterprise? I came back to North America.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.” And all of a sudden they’re like, “I guess, I could hire remote.”