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How Zapier supports 3 million users by investing in customer outcomes

Intercom, Inc.

But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers. Support teams exist to solve customers’ problems, not to deflect them or find the fastest way to hit the “close” button. In her own words , “When you take care of your customers, the revenue comes.”

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

User Pilot

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.” Lenny’s Podcast homepage.

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CRO Confidential: The Hangover’s Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong’s SVP Sales and Founders Fund

SaaStr

Set and reinforce them early — as early as interviews. If someone is working hard but isn’t working out, invest in them and see if you can get them into the high-performing category. The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Revenue matters, too.

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10 Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Perfect Sales Team

Sales Hacker

By mastering your sales interview questions. As a longtime recruiting leader, I’ve worked with countless hiring managers looking to fill sales roles , and I’ve had a firsthand look at their interview process. 6 Sales Interview Questions to Find the Best Talent. How do you make sure your potential new hires have the right skills?

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What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building

OpenView Labs

Interviewing is hard , and interviewing candidates for sales roles can be doubly so. Why is effective interviewing so important? The true cost to a company of a bad sales hire making $50k annually can be $380k , meaning the stakes for each hire are almost 8x an individual’s salary. How not to interview for sales.

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3 Mistakes Product Teams Tend to Make (And How to Avoid Them)

SaaStr

Having a functioning product team will make that balance just a tad easier. . Sometimes as business owners and teams we make assumptions. We have prototypes, interview questions, etc. A huge problem most teams face is homogeny. We spend a LOT of time building new features or products, and we’re invested.

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14 SaaS Leaders Share Their Favorite Interview Questions

OpenView Labs

What’s your biggest weakness? Great interview questions tell you who a person is, what motivates them, how they think and solve problems, and what they’d be like as a teammate. To help us all conduct better interviews, we asked some of the smartest leaders in SaaS to share their favorite questions. It’s just not productive.