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Sales Hacker
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
What’s the point of all the specialization so many sales orgs strive for if it’s just going to eat up director, VP and executive-level time and energy? Wouldn’t it take away from allowing managers to manage and coach — not to mention the monstrous to-do lists of VPs and CEOs? Who doesn’t love a good combo of ham, egg and cheese?
SaaStr
MARCH 3, 2020
Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.
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ChurnZero
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. You run the gamut.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company. When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.
SaaStr
MARCH 1, 2019
And this is not just about something you do in a later stage, when you raise that $120,000,000 that PJ from Sherpa had done, but something you can do at the series A stage when you’re doing small hires to build out your team. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. One other thing would be talent pickup.
Mucker Capital
APRIL 6, 2023
Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. If you're primarily targeting very large enterprise companies, it's very hard usually to use PLG as the only way to sell to those companies. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.
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