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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. The path to success is filled with challenges at every milestone.

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The Playbook to Building a Customer Reference Program with Talkdesk SVP of Client Services Gillian Heltai (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Now, I joined Talkdesk kind of in the second stage, which is, hooray, you’ve got enough customers that you’re able to do references potentially at scale. At that point, often you’re using your customer success team, your AE team to really kind of manually manage this process there. What am I going to get?

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5 Startup Roles That Help you Grow Faster

SaaSX

This is a dedicated role that helps distribute product knowledge across a fast-scaling sales and customer success team. If you have a simple product to set up and use, that customers buy with minimal sales & CS interaction, you don’t need this role. Reports into: Sales leadership or sales operations. Contract manager.

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Everything we’ve learned about scaling sales

Intercom, Inc.

I worked with Jack Welch of GE for a couple of months to get his online MBA program off the ground, and when I started my first company way back in the day, Jack came to Boston to do one of his conferences. Now at around the 51st person that we’re bringing in, it just doesn’t seem that they have the same passion that we do for the business.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Companies were very focused on customer success, retaining existing customers just checking in, seeing how customers were doing, assessing the health of the business, assessing the health of their own employees, really focusing on upsell, closing existing deals, and not as much focusing on top of the funnel.