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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. But you won’t scale past $4m-$5m without a true, seasoned VP of Engineering. As are you.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

Scale-ups are exciting. Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. They have grown to over $3 billion in revenue while keeping sales and marketing spending under 15% of revenue for all 20 years they’ve been in business.

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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. After the launch of ChatGPT, they went from 30 leads a week to 10,000. After that, they released instruction following models, which were the first Enterprise-ready models. How did they get here?

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

SaaStr

As Managing Director of Salesforce Ventures, Nowi Kallen , shared at last week’s Workshop Wednesday, there are five main challenges of moving upmarket and tips to follow if you want to succeed at Enterprise sales in today’s macro environment. For many, moving upmarket makes sense to scale. We’ve already mentioned the why.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. But you won’t scale past $4m-$5m without a true, seasoned VP of Engineering. She can be your CTO forever.

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SaaStr Podcast 454 (and Video): Shiven Ramji, Auth0 Chief Product Officer on What To Expect From a (Great) VP+ of Product

SaaStr

You’ll need to hire a VP of Product who can guide your company to grow at scale. Yet, as time passes, the cost of failure grows, and therefore experience, research, and enterprise readiness are essential. A product expert carries you through your beginning stages to scaled, organized growth.

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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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