Marketing New CTO Sales Recruiting SMB 
SaaStr
JULY 13, 2023
Q: Where Should SDRs Report — Marketing or Sales? Continuing the conversation on effective team members, it’s important to hire the right people to manage SDRs. A VP of Sales might seem the logical place to have your first SDR team report. But if they’ve never managed a higher turnover SDR team, they often melt.
SaaStr
MARCH 7, 2021
I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.
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SaaStr
DECEMBER 3, 2020
403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.
SaaStr
JULY 10, 2021
Making sure we have product market fit was effectively number one. Get it into the market. As the evolution of the company, as we started moving up market, started selling to enterprises, it was, “OK. Now we have to hire VP marketing who has enterprise experience.” Build the product. Craig : Yeah. crosstalk].
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