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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Productivity Per Sales Rep. Employee Retention.

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

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

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. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Finding the right skillset. Dee: Fantastic.

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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring

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

Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. Just like your first sales are being done by one of the co-founders, the first product concepts are being done by one of the co-founders. In SaaS vs. marketplaces?

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

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

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

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