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

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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. How can you recognize that a VP is great, not just good? Get best price tickets here!!!

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

and Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO of MongoDB held a fireside chat at SaaStr Annual. Dev Ittycheria – President and CEO of MongoDB. I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. This was certainly one of them.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? To date, Peter has raised $8m for InCountry from some of my very favorites including Bloomberg Beta, Felicis, Ray Tonsing @ Caffeinated and CRV just to name a few. What are the considerations? *

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week With Rippling and Salesforce — May 31, 2019

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Why should engineers also be doing customer support? * Why should your engineers be heavily involved in the customer support hiring process? How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? What are the benefits of this? What do you look for in those hires?

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. He was also the co-founder and president of a company called TrendKite. The key inflection moments along a journey of growth [14:25]. Figuring out customer centricity [18:55]. The acquisition process [21:55]. What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28].