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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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Who is this person? Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Trend #2: Growth is not marketing; Growth is operations. This is not new.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Intercom’s Des Traynor offers a framework for viewing pricing and customer targeting to segment sales processes more efficiently. Putting prices online seems to be a SaaS entrepreneur’s worst nightmare.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Angus is an investor who brings real world operating experience to his job.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Leverage the prospect’s buying process (08:04). ? First strategy here is to build the relationship on a human level , and I think one element of that is you’ve got to get in person. When that person goes to their colleagues and says, “ I want to buy this ,” and they say, “ Buy from who?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together. My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. It helped them overcome some of the initial challenges, but over time it started creating other problems. . Click To Tweet.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” ” But being out here in California at the time I saw what Cisco was doing, what Dell was doing. Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. You’re dot com.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So how did that experience impact your operating mentality and I guess what were your biggest takeaways from that experience? Yousuf Khan: So a phenomenal company and a phenomenal opportunity to be part of, really just honored to basically join a great team and a great culture. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. 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. Evgenia : Personally, I don’t think so.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. It helped them overcome some of the initial challenges, but over time it started creating other problems. Tweet this quote. Tweet this quote.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Since then, its culture code has been viewed more than 4 million times. In fact, that's probably better for everyone than if you found that out after they've been hired.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. I feel like if you listen to us for 60 straight days, there's going to be a part of your brain that's good, but a part that gets corrupted slightly. Sam: Got it.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. I’ll be the first to admit that all of the above resonates with me - I think more companies looking to stay independent and operate on their own terms is, generally, a good thing. If you’re reading this post, this probably isn’t news to you. in debt to buy out their investors.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. I feel like if you listen to us for 60 straight days, there's going to be a part of your brain that's good, but a part that gets corrupted slightly. Sam: Got it.

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