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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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 to build diversity into your hiring practices. How to Increase Revenue by 19% [36:37]. How to Increase Revenue by 19%. What You’ll Learn.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane? Scaling a sales team is not for the faint of heart – for one, it’s not even that much about selling. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Gaetan Gachet : All right, so usually the way I start this session is I ask the crowd which revenue stage they’re in. So when I joined we’re pretty much pre-revenue. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. So over time, don’t hire resumes necessarily.

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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. 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.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Here are just a few topics that our RevOps leaders talk about in Linkedin posts, articles and podcasts: Revenue acceleration plans. A career in RevOps is a great way to help your career, and have a big impact on revenue. Now, he is setting his sights on how to scale out a larger function with more specialist roles.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We do thousands of customer interviews every year, both with the individual and with the B2B buyers that buy our product. The evidence that made it super clear in the end was that we were not closing big deals with technology buyers at scale. So, let me walk you through that. We’re going to change things.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? 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? Does it have to be tied to a number related to revenue? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

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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. And we were doing great in revenue. We doubled revenue every year since 2015. It’s us.

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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. That third-party firm does what they call IDIs, or in-depth interviews, to get a sense of the customer experience. They’ve got a proven concept they need to scale. You run the gamut.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. Chris is a 20 year Silicon Valley veteran having launched the first part of his career at EMC before finding his way to Snowflake in 2013. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

At what scale does that become impossible? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Bob. Harry Stebbings.

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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. Harry : MuleSoft’s revenue has to be Malta’s GDP.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. million apiece. Calendars are broken.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sam’s Corner [40:51].

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Angus Davis. We were part of the office of the CTO. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Tell Me about Tellme & Upserve [10:30].

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? 300: When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

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? I think one challenging thing is when you look at the scale of organizations and you think about change management with new tools.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It should last even as your company scales and grows. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Tell me, explain how you think about testing this in an interview. In the same way, you should build your culture for the long-term.

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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? And well, that simplicity theme obviously is so massive and also just doing more in the product when you have that massive scale that you all have at Algolia and New Relic has as well. From contract signature to launch.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

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. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. And I think what it taught me on the operating side was that consistency is absolutely fundamental scale. Harry Stebbings.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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 is certainly not the first tech company to suffer from over-scaling, but their story is both unique and illuminating for a number of reasons. of the $3.5M

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