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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

Going upmarket drives category leadership because you establish yourself as the company that the Fortune 500 logos use. Salesforce Ventures interviewed several sales leaders in the space — Gong, Miro, Monday, Okta, and Wiz — to get an informed perspective on the challenges and lessons learned moving upmarket.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

What have been the biggest benefits of scaling a SaaS company within a non-SaaS company? What are the biggest challenges or misalignments of scaling Workplace within Facebook? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Christine. Harry Stebbings. Workplace from Facebook. Stewart Butterfield.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

Since then, I have been leading Uberall product team, which we’ve scaled from 3 people to 12 people over the past 5 years. As interviewing 100 applicants can be quite draining, I recommend the following process: 1. A quick HR interview 2. Invite the candidate to a face-to-face or a Zoom interview. Culture fit interview.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

Joe: The first time I met you was in the interview process. And so, as I went around and I interviewed some of the other executives, I heard similar things. And then it let all of leadership together, not in separate meetings where separate things are happening, analyze and commit to a solution. He really gets it.”