SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Let’s jump right into the questions.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. That third-party firm does what they call IDIs, or in-depth interviews, to get a sense of the customer experience. You run the gamut. That’s quite a challenge.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? At what scale does that become impossible? With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It should last even as your company scales and grows. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Tell me, explain how you think about testing this in an interview. Sales managers were the best reps.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. More sales meetings, start creating better sequences faster, go to go.regie.io

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? 300: When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation? Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. That just creates a flywall effect.

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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? What works? What does not work? Andrew Filev.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting.

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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. I’m recording the first in what I expect to be a series of interesting interviews.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. I’m Travis Bryant.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

You can watch the full session , and if you missed the podcast with the first half of the interview, you’ll find that here. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. Henry Schuck. Henry Schuck: Right. ” Jason Lemkin: Yeah. Where did you?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And we felt that we couldn’t fail them and fail these new customers coming in at the same time.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Paul. * What does really effective product marketing mean to Paul?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. And I think what it taught me on the operating side was that consistency is absolutely fundamental scale. Harry Stebbings.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Listen to Hang Black’s podcasts to learn about the future of sales enablement or how to lead with empathy. RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. Fixing visibility issues in your sales org.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. How intuition and heart can be built into a sales organization. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes. Show Introduction.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Zvi Guterman , founder and CEO of CloudShare. On this episode, he discusses raising (or not raising) capital, customer centricity, and he also gives a few tips to sales people looking to gain the attention of the C-suite. Advice to sales people trying to reach the C-suite.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Brendan Kamm , Co-Founder and CEO at Thnks. If you missed episode 118, check it out here: PODCAST 118: Building a Crisis-Proof Sales Culture to Weather Any Storm with Ernest Owusu. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared.

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