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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

As Managing Director of Salesforce Ventures, Nowi Kallen , shared at last week’s Workshop Wednesday, there are five main challenges of moving upmarket and tips to follow if you want to succeed at Enterprise sales in today’s macro environment. It won’t be an overnight success, and you’ll likely experience failures.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below. It allows companies to prove their real-time security posture just about any day of the year, so it accelerates their sales cycles and security reviews. And then, it allows companies to be more enterprise-ready.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

Sales wants more features. In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B Joe: The first time I met you was in the interview process. acquisition.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. Just like your first sales are being done by one of the co-founders, the first product concepts are being done by one of the co-founders. A quick HR interview 2.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Workplace, Christine was Head of America’s for Facebook’s Audience Network and before that spent 5 years as a Group Director across multiple different sales and account teams within Facebook’s mid-market channel. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Christine. Loving our podcast content?

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