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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. I feel like the core team is generally a bunch of natural athletes. Is it a time?

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Changing Your Pricing Model: How Hired Went from a Transactional to a Subscription Model

OpenView Labs

I’ve had roles in almost every function from sales to product to customer success. This is why, when it came time to shift from a transactional to a subscription pricing model, our team at Hired didn’t hesitate for a moment. For the first four years, we didn’t even need to build a professional sales organization. – once.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?