SaaStr

JULY 2, 2025

The Hiring Philosophy That Built a $23B Company “Every single person you hire should be your best hire ever. Unless you leave an interview very excited—like ‘I wish this person was here right now’—don’t hire them.” ” Raaz is obsessed with hiring. She already knew cyber.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2025

Veeva is the dominant cloud software provider for life sciences – serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with mission-critical applications for drug development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and commercial operations. You have to have enough to hire people to dedicate on it. That’s it.”

Underperforming Technical Team

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

Companies are discovering that hiring AI talent or upskilling existing teams takes much longer than anticipated. Moving from AI pilots to production-grade implementations requires solving hard technical problems around data pipelines, security, compliance, and workflow integration. Integration challenges are mounting.

AI

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2025

billion valuation after 175M round Scale AI : $29 billion valuation / “sale” with Meta’s $14.3 Industry observers like Josh Bersin remain skeptical about replicating complex systems like Workday’s payroll and compliance frameworks. billion total funding, $157 billion valuation Anthropic : $8.4

AI Search

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2025

I’ve sat through thousands of sales calls. When a CIO wants to understand compliance frameworks, the SDR schedules a follow-up with the security team. What This Means for Sales Leaders If you’re a sales leader, you need to think hard about what “good enough” means for your SDR team.

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Payrix

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Takeaway #2: Inflation and surcharging compliance Ella highlighted the rising importance of surcharging as a response to inflation and escalating operational costs. Ensuring compliance in surcharging practices is critical, as violations can lead to substantial fines. Are you planning to stand up a sales arm?

Payments

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

So read on, and hopefully, your SaaS sales journey will be less about trial and error and more about steady progress toward success. Whats important to note is that each model targets a distinct customer persona and, therefore, has a unique approach to the customer journeyfrom brand awareness to sales and, ultimately, conversion.

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BetterCloud

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Grabbing the card still makes up a substantial portion of SaaS sales in other areas of the world, too. Since employees can easily buy it, SaaS accounts — with your organizations data largely grow unknown and unchecked by IT. Risk 3: Shadow IT poses a compliance risk Related to security risk is compliance risk.

Artificial Intelligence

Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

Contact sales What is a SaaS Platform? Invest in scalable sales and marketing channels Growth doesn’t mean doing everything at onceit means doing the right things at scale. For B2B SaaS companies, aligning sales and marketing teams is critical. Q: Should I build the payment integration myself or hire a third party?

Payment Services

How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

In the fast-paced hiring landscape of 2025, an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) has become an essential tool for companies of all sizes and sectors. Importantly, ATS platforms have evolved with AI-driven features , diversity and bias reduction tools , and deep analytics to meet todays hiring challenges. GDPR for data privacy in Europe).

Systems Review

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Stevie Case is the Chief Revenue Officer at Vanta, the $4B leader in trust management and compliance automation. Watch: [link] 26:10 — Launching the experimental enterprise sales team and the patience it took to scale it. It was wild.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Introduction: Why Choosing the Right CRM Matters Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform can make or break your businesss growth trajectory. A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Can model complex sales orgs and processes.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Security and compliance are strong, with Wiz turning down billions from Google. And we talked about security compliance. There is no downturn in security compliance. There is no downturn in security compliance. But Zscaler , CrowdStrike, Rubrik , for all of these folks in security compliance, there is no downturn.

Sales Hiring

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. The other thing is just.

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SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2025

The “Kid in the Candy Store” Test Before diving into the tactical details, Rangan shared what might be the most important hiring and team-building insight for the AI era: “If they’re not saying this is the kid in the candy store age, you have the wrong team. They should be excited. “The lines are blurring.

AI Search

Scytale

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

So, in the spirit of saving (time and money), let’s cut to the chase – what’s the cost of compliance? This includes the cost of productivity to get (and stay) compliant and the practical requirements related to ISO 27001 compliance. The ISO 27001 Bible Everything you need to know about ISO 27001 compliance.

Systems Review

How To Buy Saas

JUNE 26, 2025

New hires can be onboarded faster by accessing company policies, procedures, and how-to guides in one place, and existing team members can easily find information to do their jobs more efficiently. Sales Enablement Knowledge Base: Equip your sales and customer success teams with a knowledge base of product info, playbooks, and FAQs.

Technical Review

FastSpring

DECEMBER 5, 2024

How a merchant of record like FastSpring can handle all the complexities of global payments for you, even taxes and compliance. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games! Dealing with compliance and taxes in any region, country, or jurisdiction where you choose to do business.

Payments

Sales Hacker

JUNE 24, 2025

From viral LinkedIn content and founder-led dinners to the now-infamous “donut drop” strategy, this episode is packed with practical, first-principles GTM plays you won’t find in a sales playbook. Both Centari and Atrix AI scaled founder-led sales by hiring a Chief of Staff to operationalize and extend GTM efforts.

AI

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2025

Navigating payroll, benefits, and compliance shouldnt slow you down. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. It’s not the role they’re thinking of hiring, right?

Engineering

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

A professional with a strong grasp of app performance, security, compliance, and platform guidelines. Senior Product Manager Rozetka.ua (20182022) : Managed mobile product development for one of Ukraines largest e-commerce platforms, growing mobile application sales contribution from 28% to 45% and overseeing a user base of 9.8M

Mobile

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

Navigating payroll, benefits, and compliance shouldnt slow you down. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. Thats where TriNet comes in. Mike Walrath: Yeah.

AI Search

Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2025

Navigating payroll, benefits, and compliance shouldnt slow you down. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people the go-to-market engine. Do I have pipe coverage for my sales team?

Technical Review

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

An outsourced integrated payments support team could also assist business software users with their unique issues or questions about security and compliance. Outsourcing payment support can save costs, provide 24/7 assistance, and ensure compliance expertise. Hiring in-house customer support reps and training them can be quite costly.

Outsourcing Services

Sales Hacker

JULY 1, 2025

Timely enough, Unify is also launching something big today — Unify for Sales Reps, their new AI-native system-of-action built to help sales teams work smarter and move faster. Navigating payroll, benefits, and compliance shouldn’t slow you down. That’s where TriNet comes in. Trying to exist to make that easier.

Technical Advisors

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

FastSpring, a leading global payments platform for over 3,500 growth-stage companies including top video game publishers, has hired Chip Thurston as Head of Gaming. FastSpring allows you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and many other aspects of payments management.

Sales Hiring

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I would have loved to have this in my sales days or when I was leading my teams would have been an absolute game changer, helping me to better manage emails, to prioritize quick responses, collaborate with other stakeholders. So I was like, I referenced myself on the sales call. And how do you find it? Jordan Crawford: Jordan T.

ChatGPT

SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2024

So you’re hiring your first few sales reps in the early days? Before you have a great VP of Sales? So you need a very certain type of sales rep. Don’t make the hire. If they just show up at 2:05 onto the Zoom though, don’t make the hire. #2. Not during founder-led sales.

Sales Hiring

Sales Hacker

MAY 30, 2025

When sales and marketing leaders operate in silos, companies leave growth on the table. In fact, research from the 2025 State of Sales & Marketing Alignment report by Mutiny found that teams with misalignment are 2x more likely to miss revenue targets, while fully aligned teams are 2.3x They also modeled accountability.

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Natalia Luneva

AUGUST 7, 2025

Define what makes your company different and communicate it clearly in your marketing and sales materials. When a customer refers your company to a neighbor, friend, or coworker, that recommendation carries far more weight than any ad or sales pitch. This widens your customer base and shortens your sales cycle. Fast turnaround?

Payment Methods

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2024

Probably the biggest challenge in vertical SaaS I see is scaling the sales team. It’s pretty easy to hire SaaS sales execs to sell … a SaaS sales product. But who do you hire to sell a very complex piece of vertical software? So if you hire reps for standard B2B companies, they often literally close nothing.

Sales Hiring

TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies.

Generative AI

SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2023

They usually come in and handle compliance and oversight for an existing finance team that perhaps lacks the seasoned experience to handle models, venture capital and debt, prepare for an audit, etc. For sure, if you have a strong existing sales team that needs some mentorship, I can see a Fractional CRO working. Image from here.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2024

It’s less jack-of-all-trade hires, so the knowledge and questions they’ll ask will look a lot different. Either way, ensure the demand gen team sits down with sales and decides which accounts to go after. Either way, ensure the demand gen team sits down with sales and decides which accounts to go after.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Stephanie Couzin, the VP of GTM Strategy and Ops, and Roderick De Greef, the VP of Sales and GM EMEA, share Lucid’s transition from a PLG company to a PLG and Sales-Led company. Lucid hired someone with a business background under a special project. This is where product-led sales comes in.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2021

So how do you simplify and speed up your sales cycles? He started as the first sales hire at TripActions when the company was small and he helped scale the business to 5,000 customers, 1,200 employees and a $5 billion private valuation. Read on for Michael’s insightful advice for driving faster sales cycles. Subscribe.

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