SaaStr

MAY 10, 2023

Combining Strong Growth With A New Level of Efficiency. HubSpot’s operating margins have scaled into the double-digits the past two quarters for the first time. At the end of the day, in SaaS, efficiency really comes from growing revenue faster than headcount. Salaries and comp are the vast majority of expenses.

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Scale SMB Headcount New CTO 251

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 177

Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

With global equations used to calculate investment-to-Revenue in traditional functions like Sales or Engineering , it’s often very straightforward to showcase the value and convince CFOs to invest in these organizations. NDR Efficiency: The New Customer Success Economics. How are you scaling your team ? What are your CSM ratios?

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Customer Success New CTO Scale Headcount 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

That’s what David Apple—customer success and sales guru at Notion— is asking. And in this article he explains why, and proposes a different approach to thinking about the optimal CSM headcount to help you build a more effective customer success organization. What’s the return on investment of your mom? What is their ROI?

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Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

How does this requirement change as the company scales? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl think about doing this at scale? How does Karl think about retaining agility and flexibility with scale? How does Karl think about working with recruiters?

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 221

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215