SaaStr
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Head of Sales. You will need to promote and hire more mid-level managers.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?
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FastSpring
MARCH 27, 2023
Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. I spoke to Ryan about how they created a new enterprise ops category: LearnOps.
OpenView Labs
MAY 5, 2021
Other businesses, like LinkedIn and Netflix, have strong histories of being producers of open-source projects, which provides a strategic recruitment and retention tool for top-tier engineering talent. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?
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