SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So mid-market, we’re about 40 to 50K ACV enterprise. 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. What’s your ACV today?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Today, division leaders who run market-facing GTM functions account for 36% of CEO appointments. 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. In that first initial period, we were great at mid-market.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. Otherwise, we are not doing our jobs, being in the marketing space.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

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

JULY 13, 2023

Q: Where Should SDRs Report — Marketing or Sales? It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. On the flip side, marketers, whether you call them SDRs or BDRs, are more of a demand-gen marketer and may have their own team. Amazing outbound works for sales and marketing and funds.

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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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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. We initially went to market as a consumer business.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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. And in this way, we under invested in middle management along the way, especially in our go to market motion. It had much larger brand awareness in the market. Henry Schuck: Right. It molded-.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Vlad: So what’s the new reality? So we needed to kind of get the new mindset going.

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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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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. Why is market risk no longer a risk he is willing to take? Where do many entrepreneurs make mistakes when it comes to market timing?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So HubSpot today is like a 25 or 30, I don't know whatever the market cap is. if I'm going to work on brand, I'm in there with the marketing team reviewing copy and going through the. And then I met Brian in grad school and we both have this kind of shared passion for SMB.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So HubSpot today is like a 25 or 30, I don't know whatever the market cap is. if I'm going to work on brand, I'm in there with the marketing team reviewing copy and going through the. And then I met Brian in grad school and we both have this kind of shared passion for SMB.

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