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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

SaaStr

How do the best onboard their sales reps? How can sales calls be used for new rep onboarding? Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. I had to onboard reps. That sounds good.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money. SaaS is way more of a team sport than most companies realize.