SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 136

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Why does he believe this is so important?

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DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. But the meta point is this, if you’re recruiting in 2024, beware of the “Lost Generation” candidate and persona you may come across. This starts to get tough.

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Sales Recruiting Trends Sales Hiring Software Review 290

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Product-market fit has been really important. I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 177

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

Scale 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. We invest all over the country and very much in Europe as well including Paris. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales.

Sales Hiring 114

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Company Culture 114

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 202

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps. We’re trying to recruit someone that’s way above our weight class, so that we can actually scale. You hire a search firm.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 266

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Affiliates usually receive some kind of compensation (more on this below) for their work. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. Working with established partners in existing markets, you don’t need new offices, hires, or associated marketing and sales spends. Increased Product Focus.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. Before joining Redpoint, Tomasz was the product manager for Google’s AdSense social-media products and AdSense internationalization. Listen on Google Play Music.

Scale 116

Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 116

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB.

Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 180

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps?

Scale 190

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 190

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2019

This is in large part a reflection of marketing today, a world where the scope of marketing activities has broadened significantly. The most sophisticated marketing plans today deploy at least nine disciplines which range from content marketing, to evangelist recruitment, to customer lifecycle marketing and beyond.

Scale 117

Scale Sales Recruiting Revenue Scaling 117

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. So that’s what I wanna throw out there today, is a framework on how to think about it deeper than just, hey let’s get product market fit and then lets add 20 reps. What is sales? What is sales?

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Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 213

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add. What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit? What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? *

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SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 26

A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. — optimize myopically for speed-to-market. First, Recruiting is casting about for potential candidates. Recruiting. Predictability.

Scale 61

Scale Government Scaling Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Show Introduction [00:02]. The acquisition process [21:55].

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74