Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. The Value Of CRM Integration [22:24].

Scale 103

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 103

GetUplift

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While staring at a blank google doc trying to come up with smart and effective copy that will help prospects understand what it is you do — and why they should choose you over someone else — you probably find yourself almost automatically gravitating towards your competitors’ websites. Because AI is THE thing right now.

B2B 65

B2B Technical Review Payment Solutions Scale 65

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Ryan called it a light bulb moment out of which the idea for Cognota was born.

Payment Solutions 108

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. I’ll go easy on you.

Scale 159

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 159

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. * First, what is continuous customer development? What is the process to do it efficiently? Does it have to be in person?

Scale 126

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 126

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. All of the cool ideas that you had, you would get really clear feedback about what was going on, but if it was a good idea, it would really move the needle in revenue and volume.

Acquisition 136

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 136

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. Nick Mehta: So let’s dive into the future. I don’t know anyone right now.

Payment Methods 196

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. What sort of terms make them less beneficial for the vendor? * Eyal Manor. Megan Lueders.

SaaS Payments 130

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 130

ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Get it right and your customer success strategy can decrease customer acquisition costs, increase lifetime value, and make a direct impact on your revenue potential. We know right now, amid a crisis, leadership takes on a whole new meaning. MRR LOSS +1.36%. MRR GAIN -1.90%.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Happy post lunch interview. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. So, 90 new people coming on and figuring out how to do that integration.

Payments 145

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 145

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. Predictable Revenue. Wooden on Leadership. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Agile Selling. Spin Selling. Insight Selling. Spear Selling.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

Sales Hiring 234

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 234

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

These ads are aimed directly at the heart of parents, showing them that Lego is an integral part of building, inventing and bringing their kids’ dreams to life. . The article was only written to drive website traffic. Ultimately, emotional marketing increases conversions that lead to more business revenue.

Payment Methods 122

Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 122

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

It gives the product a competitive advantage, improves brand reputation, and propels revenue growth. Common needs are related to functionality, reliability, usability , integration , support, customization, and cost-effectiveness. Personalize experiences for different customer segments. Userpilot survey templates.

SaaS Payments 90

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 90

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. We were always extremely transparent about our cash in hand, our months of runway, our traffic, our revenue. ” Two months later, we were profitable and we ended the year with eight million in revenue and one million in profit.

Sales Hiring 165

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 165

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. Allison Pickens. Anika Zubair. Dana Alvarenga. Daphne Lopes. Donna Weber.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. Harry Stebbings. Rob Gonzalez.

SaaS Payments 255

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 255

SmartKarrot

MAY 29, 2020

Likewise, the account manager monitors budgets, costs, revenues, and profits – while explaining cost factors to customers. Some account managers have the duty of finding new customers and potential opportunities for the business. This way, you will let the interviewer know that you are a skillful individual and respect yourself.

Management 10

Management Healthcare SaaS Payments Technical Review 10

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

Stripe’s Head of North America Revenue & Growth, Jeanne DeWitt, on driving growth through customer expansion. Our Head of Sales Ops, Jeff Serlin, and our Director of Demand Generation, Brian Kotlyar, on how sales and marketing should work together to build a single revenue plan. Jeanne DeWitt talks driving expansion revenue.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. And what that has resulted in is that you have CIOs and their leadership teams are basically involved in architecting systems across the company and what those basically mean. Number two, as a result, they have a much better impact on the revenue side.

Technical Advisors 157

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 157

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Robert Vis.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue.

Investment 157

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 157

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. They don’t have an agenda. You take as long as you need.

Sales Hiring 154

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 154

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We spoke with Kim and Lee to learn more about their careers, how they built AuditBoard into the company it is today, and their leadership styles. Kim: At a lot of larger organizations, risk is a very critical component as they operate the business. Then there are some industry-specific risks, like PCI (Payment Card Industry) or HIPAA.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services VP of Engineering Interviewing Payment Solutions 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

As each of you have likely personally experienced, whether you’re a founder on sales, with each compensation lever you pull, there are inevitably behaviors on the sales team that get pushed. And so that required leadership coming in and saying, “What exactly am I looking to incentivize here?”

Sales Recruiting 130

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 130

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Eric Christopher. Leah Busque.

Sales Hiring 139

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 139

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. Tell me, explain how you think about testing this in an interview. At a bare minimum, get your managers together regularly to encourage important leadership discussions such as: What's working in teams.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. .” He saw something.

B2B 133

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 133

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. That company would go on to be acquired by TaskRabbit, where he helped 3x core business volume as co-head of marketing. We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend.

Leadership 63

Leadership Payments Scale Payment Methods 63

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership?

Scale 119

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 119

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared. Peter Yared. Michael Seibel.

VP of Engineering 130

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 130