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

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Now, I just invest in SasS companies. If you look at any SaaS startup, in the first couple reps, they always find one guy or gal that’s just amazing, just killing it. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. That’s my background. laughter].

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Pete is also the author of Founding Sales, the canonical writing on early-stage startup sales. Pete is also the author of Founding Sales, the canonical writing on early-stage startup sales.

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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)

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One is, lots of folks that have been through the startup cycle, you have this extrapolation from a single data point problem, which is, “OK, we have this story. The other thing that dropped our odds of success was the fact that we were focused on small business, on the SMB market, and everyone we talked to, literally everyone.