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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

SaaStr

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. Now, I just invest in SasS companies. Make the revenue recur, I’m interested. up that is sub one million in recurring revenue? One of maybe the top 10 mistakes everybody makes is they want to hire this VP of sales too early. That’s my background. Who has a start?up

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact. The lack of self awareness is real.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

SaaStr

Something that we did really poorly at TalentBin early on was not really focusing on a very crisply defined ICP and insufficiently investing in customer success. Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. Double the revenue.