Sat.Dec 25, 2021

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The Secrets to Scaling Zapier to 500 Employees from Employees Themselves with Wade Foster, Co-founder & CEO at Zapier (Podcast 510 and Video)

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Zapier grew from a small SaaS startup to a company with over 500 employees over a decade. Want to know how they did it? . Wade Foster, Co-Founder and CEO, shares secrets from 20 of the earliest employees at the company. The employee names and numbers in which they are listed below correlate to the order in which they joined the Zapier team. Here’s the advice they had to offer on scaling your SaaS company.

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Inbound or Outbound Sales? The Answer is Yes

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There’s a meme, a CommonThink, among certain segments that Outbound Sales is Bad, or at least, a Little Unseemly. And maybe a lot bit Old School. That we’re in a new world of sales, a new Product-Led world, where leads come in, prospects can try and learn before they even talk to a human, and then sometimes,, a sales rep thoughtfully answers questions, models business process change, and helps them decide how and why, and if, to buy.

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Money

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After almost 60,000,000 views on Quora, the top #2, #4, #14, and #17 answers are all about how much money CEOs and founders ma ke. And not just “exit” money but salary. Salary is a means to an end for great founders, nothing more. Money matters of course. But it’s not a good enough reason to start a start-up. Basically every start-up almost fails.

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