SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

It became a part of our interview questions. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? How have the other two of you thought about building out your team?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. ” I took a lot of finance classes because that seemed to be the thing to do, what everyone was doing, even though I ended up hating those classes. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. Want to see more content like this? Good afternoon.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Dave. As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. Dave McJannet: So, I started my career in the world of finance, actually, and I moved to the Bay area when my girlfriend, now my wife, came here for grad school. Dave McJannet.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked? What did not work?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. Why was joining Okta the most challenging interview process he has experienced? Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

To date, the company has raised $120M in financing from Battery Ventures, Insight, Venrock, Costanoa, Bain Capital, and Salesforce Ventures to name a few. What can teams do to bring their themes to life? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Latané. Who is involved? What needs to be ready? Harry Stebbings.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Loving our podcast content? What works?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution. Missed the session?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. How to Find a Good Consultant – Getting the Interviewing Process Right.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Happy post lunch interview. Ari : So Mary Meeker led the financing round, right? Enter the platform company. Zach : Go for it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * In terms of tone, what is the right tone to approach the broader team with? How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Team selling and why it’s making a comeback [7:43]. Who influenced Trish in her career development [31:34]. She’s going to be talking to us about team selling and how the concept of combined quotas with senior and junior account executives, converging on one territory, is coming back. Show Introduction [00:04].

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? Missed the session?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I. Eyal Manor. Megan Lueders.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Karen.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2020

Gleb is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision making strategies. His cutting edge thought leadership has been featured in over 550 articles and 450 interviews in the likes of Fast Company, CBS News, and Time. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The keys to great leadership [18:24]. A more scientific interview process [20:35]. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. I understand accounting and finance. What You’ll Learn.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sometimes, however, blocks can develop in the pipeline. We recorded a free-flowing conversation for the podcast, where we flipped the script and interviewed each other about everything from how to stay relevant in marketing to strategies for digging into tricky metrics. How to scale marketing teams.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Claire Johnson: If you don’t know us, I’d love to change that.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Outreach produces incredible industry leading events like their Unleash Conference and their city-by-city Unleashed Summit Series road shows which will resume once people are allowed to take road shows again, along with top notch, thought leadership content. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Matt Rizzetta.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared. And so really it became a bad habit. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? Stripe recently announced their 5th office would be… “remote”, so how does Parker feel about the building of remote teams? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team? Molly Ford.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 9, 2019

Having gone through the pricing process multiple times, I have developed my own framework for assessing the situation and then developing pricing that is appropriate and effective. Establishing a close and trusting relationship with your sales team is critical to your success as a product marketer. Win-loss Interviews.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Sam Jacobs: We’ve got an interview with a friend and a great entrepreneur, AJ Bruno, the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. ” Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with AJ Bruno. Who influenced AJ [33:28].

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Who is Vishal Sunak and what is LinkSquares? [02:00].

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. Jason Lemkin: Together as a team, right? Aileen Lee: And hi, everyone.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

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