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GitLab’s Hila Qu on What B2B Companies Can Learn About Growth from B2C

OpenView Labs

In a B2B company, growth is applied much more broadly, taking a cross-functional, multidisciplinary approach that includes sales, marketing, customer success, product, and others. When I joined GitLab, I was starting a new product-led growth team within the product organization,” Hila says. “We Acquisition.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. How well are they engaging? How should the success of marketing be measured?

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. I do that a lot.

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