ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. It can be hard to convince PE firms to invest in the customer. How did you get your PE colleagues to invest in the customer experience? We hire a third-party firm. They’ve got a proven concept they need to scale.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Yousuf made his way from the UK to the valley and how that led to his becoming one of the leading CIOs today in the rising prominence of CIOs in enterprise. What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Those were three things I wanted to jump on.

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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.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does this requirement change as the company scales?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

You can watch the full session , and if you missed the podcast with the first half of the interview, you’ll find that here. They’ve invested in all of these other businesses. Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. We all under invest. Henry Schuck.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. That just creates a flywall effect.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. That was the start of the Month of Scale. Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Yousuf made his way from the UK to the valley and how that led to his becoming one of the leading CIOs today in the rising prominence of CIOs in enterprise. * It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. I’m recording the first in what I expect to be a series of interesting interviews.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? You need to discover in the sales process. And again, if it’s not teed up correctly in sales, CS is already at a disadvantage. I mean, what do they do?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. Oh, and do all of this with less time. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Paul. An incredible company and founder making his foray into the public eye for the first time. Is there hiring decisions?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. We can help you scale your business, or you can go with an inferior solution. And they were seeing lots of fraud.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20].

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. How intuition and heart can be built into a sales organization. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was our first transitionary moment, and from that point forward, we began investing heavily in building a way to teach people technology skills outside of a physical classroom. So we kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve. So, let me walk you through that.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Brendan Kamm , Co-Founder and CEO at Thnks. If you missed episode 118, check it out here: PODCAST 118: Building a Crisis-Proof Sales Culture to Weather Any Storm with Ernest Owusu. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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