SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Fast forward to today, and there is an amazing amount of B2B-centric content out there, and many others have put together amazing events around the hard-learned lessons of scaling revenue and scaling SaaS companies. 2017 The Third SaaStr Annual: Scale Together. 2018 The Fourth SaaStr Annual: Learn and Scale Together.

Scale 265

Scale Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO 265

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning.

Scale 107

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 107

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.

Sales Hiring 252

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 252

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

Scale 166

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 166

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

Sales Hiring 88

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 88

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.

Technical Advisors 152

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 152

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?

VP of Engineering 128

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 128

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.

CTO Coach 123

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 123

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

CTO Coach 101

CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire Startup 101

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Listen to Hang Black’s podcasts to learn about the future of sales enablement or how to lead with empathy. RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. Fixing visibility issues in your sales org.

Scale 99

Scale Technical Cofounder Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 99

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. Pricing in a Time of Uncertainty. The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right). Picking a Pricing Strategy for Your Product.

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. 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.

B2B 132

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 132

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

Part-Time VPE 207

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 207

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Pricing is an incredibly important part of any SaaS product’s go-to-market strategy. While there are many tactical elements to consider, the most successful pricing strategies are built on a strong, almost philosophical foundation: that your pricing needs to be a win-win that works for both your customers and your company.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Technical Review 40

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. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

You understand the customer, and you understand the strategy. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. Q: Based on your acquisition experience, are for-sale businesses focusing on the customer and NPS? You run the gamut.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Customer Success VP of Engineering CTO Hire 52

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.

Marketplace as a Service 95

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 95

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? 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?

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. The best part? Covering all ground won’t be easy. Full post. .

Scale 103

Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire Social Media 103

Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Experience is kind of the holy grail when it comes to customer interaction, from marketing and sales to customer service and brand loyalty. It’s often an open-source platform that allows API integrations from various departments, such as sales, to deliver super personal experiences to users.

AI Search 124

AI Search CTO Hire Scale Artificial Intelligence 124

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

How does Yousuf advise CIOs to approach pricing strategy when pitching CIOs? 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. Does that work for you, Yousuf?

CTO Hire 132

CTO Hire compliance Scale Startup 132

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We focus on Series A, and we only make a small number of investments, probably four or five a year, precisely because like to work very closely with the companies that we invest into to really help you scale out of Europe. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up.

New CTO 142

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 142

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. And so we actually had to make some major adjustments and look for an alternative way to deliver the software which clearly meant that we needed to move to the cloud full-time. Want to see more content like this session?

Cloud 165

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 165

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

What about the ROI of spending time with your family, friends, or kids? That’s what David Apple—customer success and sales guru at Notion— is asking. How many CSMs should you hire? On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without.

Scale 43

Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

For one, there was never enough real estate, given we were in San Francisco and Zynga on Pinterest weren’t the only companies with a real estate strategy of being under one roof. How are you and how have you been advising your clients on this hybrid strategy? There just wasn’t enough square footage.

Sales Recruiting 143

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 143

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We were talking to Sean Place, who was the co founder and CTO, and it turned out that they were just giving gift cards to these drivers, but they had no way to authorize the right transaction at the right time for the right amount. We can help you scale your business, or you can go with an inferior solution. We did that.

Merchant Services 74

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 74

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. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Sales Hiring 68

Sales Hiring Revenue CTO Coach CTO Hire 68

Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

It’s great if the answer will broaden over time as the company grows and its strategy naturally expands, but up-front I’d name the people you are targeting today. So if you’re doing a sales-related category it’s not hard to companies full of ex-Siebel and ex-Salesforce people. Who is the target customer?

Startup 99

Startup Sales Hiring CTO Hire New CTO 99

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. And in parallel we went off and build SteelBrick.

Sales Recruiting 161

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 161

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

And then it was just a matter of, okay, make sure that it works, make sure that it scales, then very important not to forget, make sure that people buy it, that they know how to find you, you know. And then the sale will commence as far as the people and this was, we were multiple millions of dollars of revenue until I took the first call.

Scale 138

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 138

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In this framework, you’ll learn how to design a scoring system that aligns to your growth strategy, brainstorm and select leader indicators of success, and operationalize the system across your startup. After Jebbit raised its Series B, Michael Marcus, VP of Customer Success (CS), sat down with his team to plan their scale-up operations.

Startup 91

Startup Scale Systems Review Technical Review 91

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. 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.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

SmartKarrot

MARCH 4, 2021

What makes a chief product officer (CPO) different from a CTO or a VP in the product department. For companies to scale, it is a must-have role. A chief product officer can also be known as the VP of Product, Head of Product, Product Head, and more for their product-related execution and strategy. Product Strategy.

Part-Time CTO 16

Part-Time CTO VP of Engineering CTO CTO Hire 16

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? * Is there hiring decisions? So product strategy decisions, vision documents. What were his biggest operating takeaways from seeing the internal mechanics of Twitter & Slack? Is it product decisions?

CTO Coach 167

CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire Software Review 167

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I guess, if my strategy was to show up and to try and lead an $80 million round and write a $50 million check to do that, and you’re like, “Wait a second, 275 divided by five people, your piece of that’s probably 55. ” So, depends on the strategy. I don’t know if they should think anything of it.

Sales Recruiting 162

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 162