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GTM 151: AI-First GTM, Lean Teams, & Customer Obsession with Dennis Lyandres

Sales Hacker

But behind every product launch and revenue milestone is a team – and building that team is one of the hardest and important parts of the journey. Build the team that builds the company.” – that is part of your go-to-market strategy responsible for growth. The talent strategy has a lot more things in it than that.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. the night before it was to IPO). It’s a bit of a chicken-egg thing.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. Invest in your development internally and externally.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? What questions reveal the most?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with B Capital Group and Bessemer Venture Partners — February 7, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What is the ability of the company to continue to build an incredible team?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pleo and Talkdesk — October 4, 2019

SaaStr

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. Why did Jeppe decide to focus on SMBs from Day 1? How does the product build in the early days differ when building for SMB vs enterprise? What changes? * Missed the session?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Liat Bycel: Yeah, I think that career development conversation should be an ongoing conversation. Harry Stebbings: Totally.