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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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Strategy actually comes down the page. When you hire a VP of Sales and all they want to talk about in the interview is strategy, strategy, strategy, I’m not sure they’re a closer. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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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. ” Then it turns out that a VP of engineering doesn’t have time in their day to do searching, and writing outbound emails, and so on and so forth.

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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)

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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.