Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Before that, he was the first non-founder seller at three startups, turning early traction into a repeatable sales motion. Discussed in this Episode: When to hire your first account executives Key traits to look for in early sales hires Structuring compensation for first sales reps Should you ‘hire the buyer’ to be your sales rep?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Despite all the advancements in technology, creating a product with a great user experience remains challenging. Many companies believe excellent product design comes from hiring the best engineers and signing up for the latest software instead of building from the users’ perspectives.

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TechEmpower SaaS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do you anticipate scale issues presently or in the future? Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? Who was involved in those projects, and are they still part of the firm? Do they have experience with the technologies involved in your project? Were they finished on time and on budget?

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2023

You’ll never truly understand how to lead a SaaS company until you’ve done it firsthand. Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. Robinson says, “Your technical moat is not usually some unique, specific piece of technology.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

So to serve both segments at the simultaneously, ZoomInfo has been rolling out a Product-led sales motion, that gives the ability for an SMB customer to sign up directly on their website for a free trial and grow into a paid customer, without ever having to talk to an sales rep or go through a demo process. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo?

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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.

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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. It got much better over time. A SaaStr Classic!!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

Being on call regularly can lead to burnout, apathy or a general desire to never see a computer again. Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. If this sounds like the sort of environment that you would enjoy, we are actively hiring – check out our openings.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In that moment, I learned something very special about technology, and I also learned something very special about my relationship with learning. In fact, I wouldn’t be standing here on stage with you had we not evolved from that point in time, because I was teaching technology classes in a classroom, in a physical classroom like this.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. Want to see more content like this session?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Short on time? Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. You can do amazing things.

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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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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. The B2B SaaS arms race will be won by those who can consistently translate technical debt into development versatility: adding new features, integrating new data sources and workflow integrations, trying new technologies, retiring locked-in dependencies. DevOps transformation!

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

Experienced payments and sales executive joins Stax leadership team to drive accelerated growth for Stax Connect and embedded payments. a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Jeremy Krahl as the SVP, ISV Business Development. Stax Payments , Inc., and Canada.

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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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

The thing about growing fast, you always think about how to get more customers, more prospects. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. But also, as a sole founder, you also can make a decision in a very timely manner. If you do that, you’re in user focus.

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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

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.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. These two tools are bookending the extremes of a very long timeline of the relationship between humans and technology. A unified theory of technology. That’s how I think of myself.

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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.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

The technology just wasn’t there. You can actually look at a lot of social networking technology as if it’s almost an alternative to AI. Everyone has their own special technology that they can add to the models. I remember trying to build some AI products in college, and it was just very difficult. Adam: Yeah.

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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. But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane? Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up.

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Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people. Prospecting tool for generating new leads.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

After Jebbit raised its Series B, Michael Marcus, VP of Customer Success (CS), sat down with his team to plan their scale-up operations. It’s not uncommon for early-stage teams to lean on CS to improve renewal rates and buy time for their software to catch up. “It Identify ideal customers and hone sales personas.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why outbound prospecting is difficult [11:45]. Ways to use technology to help you sound less automated [26:01]. Sales enablement is easy. The result?

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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. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. If you’re unfamiliar with Reforge, it’s the world’s leading career development platform for top-tier tech talent. Advanced Growth Strategy. Apply To Join Reforge. Real problems require real depth.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And I think when you’re as an entrepreneur, like you want to go solve a problem and it’s a lot of fun using technology to go and do that. So we were selling a payments technology to companies that didn’t necessarily know payments. Some went to other technology providers. We were deep payment nerds.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. Leading with honest, real-life conversation and perspective has served me so well over the years. It’sone of the reasons people enjoy working with me;that they know I’m going to give them a good, honest conversation at all times.

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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. Since then, its culture code has been viewed more than 4 million times. Sales managers were the best reps.

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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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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. Keep in mind that Chief Product Officers (CPO) are different from Chief Technology Officers (CTO) and Chief Marketing Officers (CMO). Some product vision statements include-. “to

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

There is a big set of trends happening right now, which is with the downturn and I tweeted this a while back like at the beginning of the downturn that like every customer is scrutinizing, do they really need this technology or not? I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. Where does Erica often see founders make mistakes with this scaling? How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? Where do many go wrong?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Software as a service or SaaS has been growing as a leading software distribution model. Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture. Alex Turnbull. Asia Orangio.

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