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PODCAST 65. The Framework to Deliver Exceptional Customer Success w/ Kim Rose

Sales Hacker

Kim herself is an incredible executive, and she walks through both professional lessons about how to scale a customer success organization, but also life lessons about how to reenter the workforce. She has more than 15 years experience building and scaling customer focused organizations at SaaS companies. It’s a fantastic show.

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

SaaStr

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. At $10 million in revenue, when you hit initial scale, there’s somewhere for them in the business, whether you’re VC backed, a lot of VC back, a little VC, whether you’re self?funded,

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Of course, not at scale.

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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

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. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company. It got better.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. The company was 145 people, 40 of which were engineers. We had been still growing in San Francisco, one extra office in Mendoza, and in scaling our company we were finding that customer service was a really big expense for us.