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. Revenue Up 30%, but Employee Count Only up 10%, to 7,055.

Scale 277

Scale SMB Headcount New CTO 277

Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, in Sales, you can take your Annual Revenue Target, divide it by the Projected Revenue Attainment Per Headcount (factoring in some ramp time) and out comes a Headcount projection. NDR Efficiency: The New Customer Success Economics. How are you scaling your team ? What are your CSM ratios?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success New CTO Scale Headcount 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

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. On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without. Here are a few teasers.

Scale 43

Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. If we take them one by one, what were your biggest lessons from scaling the team at Dropbox?

Scale 184

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 184

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.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

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?

Sales Hiring 222

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 222