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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician. Find and hire two other similar reps.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Users come to us all the time and they say, Hey, this company looks awesome. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager. And if you get hired, RepVue will actually pay you $500. And it’s easy to inflate that for companies during the hiring process.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. ” I’m kind of like, “Even if you make one or two sales in the next couple of months, with your VP sales, it’s going to take you three months to go and hire.”

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.”

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Caught your interest? How does that feel?

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The Three Un’s of Successful Founders

Kellblog

The CEO said to the CTO as we were leaving, “spend the $9M anyway.” They apologize for missed quarters or bad hires. After much wrangling, the board agreed that we should spend $8M. The meeting adjourned shortly thereafter. The VCs left first and I was walking out of the room with only the founders. Unapologetic.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. We were part of the office of the CTO.