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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

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ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. Maybe starting with a few individual contributors is even better than a manager, because these days many CS leaders don’t really want to be as hands-on as they used to be. But you’ll need a manager to scale beyond 2. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m

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The Top 5 Things Everyone Should Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

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VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. But the founders and CEOs need to attract even more types of managers, earlier, in SaaS. You have to love, or at least commit to, recruiting constantly. You have to hire so many functions in SaaS?—?VPS, If you’re not willing to constantly recruit cross-functionality … you’ll never attract the talent.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

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And it will require a collaboration across the organization at the leadership level. Do you have partner sales managers that cover the cloud marketplaces? How many people are actually dedicated to the cloud vendors themselves and what are the key activities that they’re kind of leading? Rico Mallozzi: Yeah.

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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

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And that means your initial leadership team often takes you faster, and further, than you might ever think. There are roughly 2 types of start-up management teams. The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. A 50/50 mix is ideal in general for management (half promoted, half hired from outside).