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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. After the launch of ChatGPT, they went from 30 leads a week to 10,000. The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. How did they get here?

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 2 (Pod 608 + Video)

SaaStr

” So what are maybe one or two things you want to give as advice to founders who are doing sales in the very early stage, the first couple of million ARR, that you feel are super useful in that stage in kind of trying to develop that, I think that sales muscle, if you will. This episode is the second half of the session.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. And what a year it has been! More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Hopefully the information below will help you avoid premature scaling.

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Is Your Sales Organization Ready for a Recession?

OPEXEngine

Sales capacity tends to get rusted in place, and when markets move quickly, the return on the cost of sales inevitably starts to flatten. Ensure sales leaders are sweating the details of daily execution. The three principles to follow are: Aligning resources with market opportunity. Getting the back of the house in order.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps. Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales. Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner.