Compensation Customer Support Sales Recruiting 
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 9, 2015
We started building our teams with a simple functional structure: product managers working as a product team, account managers working as an account team, and so forth for engineering, sales, marketing, customer support, QA, and partnerships. People spans recruiting, training and development.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 31, 2017
This might seem like a very logical argument for differentiating on sales processes, but it’s a fallacy. First, it presumes that the most valuable skill set in sales is building rapport. Great salespeople understand how to manage a sales process and the five key people in a sales process. Trust is critical.
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Totango
JULY 19, 2021
It may be wise to look for applicants coming from diverse backgrounds, such as those with customer relations, sales or other service-orientated backgrounds. Be sure you look for the skills and qualities that will allow a customer success manager (CSM) to truly connect with customers. Customer advocacy.
Totango
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In some companies, customer success managers may play an active role in the sales process, helping sales representatives elicit customer goals and persuade buyers of product benefits. At other companies, CS managers may be assigned to follow up on sales during the customer onboarding phase.
Intercom, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. One person, 50. Amplify doesn’t have attribution for deals.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?
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