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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. In that case, it was Gap.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

How does this change when selling to SMBs vs enterprise? * Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Sam. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. How should the success of marketing be measured?

Scale 180
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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

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. We had to say: what does SMB want?

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Angus Davis. We were part of the office of the CTO. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Tell Me about Tellme & Upserve [10:30].

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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

SaaStr

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. Do you segment enterprise and SMB? Henry Schuck. Henry Schuck: Right.