SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. And actually when we started, I see one face in the room that I recognize, Kurt Freytag, was one of our big customers at the time when I joined. 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

MARCH 12, 2019

How can founders know when is the right time to make the move from SMB to enterprise? Because one message isn’t necessarily always transferable when considering kind of SMB to enterprise. ” How do you know when’s the right time to think about moving from an SMB and mid-market to enterprise?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

From contract signature to launch. Touching it, playing with it in a way a CIO or CTO might not before? We are still heavily oriented to SMB and to entrepreneurs. You say that Shopify is an SMB customer when I see 29%. I think Slack the majority of their revenue is enterprise even though their roots is SMB.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. It was pretty easy being an SDR for Marc Andreessen because he’d been on the cover of Time magazine.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? So once we had Sequoia and Khosla in, we had these references people could call them, so that was fine. Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise? That’s like who you’re hiring too.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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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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