Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around. 09:56 Doug’s “awesome test” for hiring top talent (and the 90-day rule he swears by). 13:26 The speed dating hack that landed Coffee’s first sales leader. 17:36 What Doug learned running Sales Cloud at Salesforce — and why he left. It’s awesome.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

NPS – which is sometimes referred to as the “ The Ultimate Question ” – is a customer satisfaction benchmark that measures how likely your customers are to recommend your business to friends, colleagues, and other contacts. You can think of it as a numerical value that indicates how loyal your customers are. Anatomy of a Promoter.

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Scale VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Churn 95

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2025

Rather than buying the company outright, Google licensed the IP and hired the top 20-30 engineers for approximately $2.6B, leaving behind what Rory describes as “an empty husk.” ” The president of Cognition reportedly got a DM on Friday night and closed the deal in 15 minutes.

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FastSpring

JULY 3, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview payments industry legend and VP of Payments at FastSpring, Jeremy Waxman about his thoughts on what the most common payment stack attacks are, why bad actors choose those particular types of attacks, and what you can do to make your payment stack more secure regardless of who your payment provider is.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rick Kelley is the former VP of Metas Global Business Group, where he led a $10B+ revenue organization and played a pivotal role in building out Metas go-to-market teams across North America and EMEA.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2021

And I gave him an insanely great VP of Sales candidate. But like any candidate, this VP of Sales wasn’t perfect. He said he’d hire him … with a great package … but only as “Head of Sales” Not VP. And this VP Sales candidate met with another CEO I know well. A real gift. That Day.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale Engineering 348

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Joe DiMento is the Head of Go-To-Market & Industry Partnerships at Bain Capital Ventures. Previously, he was an operating partner at Fractal Software, helping launch vertical software companies and find product-market fit. What was your experience?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Customer Success SaaStr Session #3: “Secrets to Driving Customer Success with Human-centric Design with Freshworks’ VP”. Presented By: Mukesh Mirchandani – Vice President, Global Field Solution Engineering – Freshworks. upsell + expansion CAC vs $1.67 Video: Intriguing Session Slides: .

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Engineering Retention 363

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Javier Molina, VP of Corporate Sales, MongoDB. Sharon Prosser, VP of Global Sales, Zendesk. Astha Malik, VP of Planning and Enablement, Zendesk. Colleen Kapase, VP of WW Partner & Alliances, Snowflake. Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic. Sasha Pasulka, Vice President, Marketing, Splash.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2023

Ok we are close!! We’re adding the final batches of Workshops and Braindates for 2023 SaaStr Annual!! Ari Lee Bayme, Managing Director @ Sandfox Advisors See You There!! Ari Lee Bayme, Managing Director @ Sandfox Advisors See You There!! Ari Lee Bayme, Managing Director @ Sandfox Advisors See You There!!

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2022

SaaStr 539: The Journey to Building a Successful Customer Advisory Board in the Enterprise with Mapistry VP of Customer Experience Maya Colato. SaaStr 537: How Hybrid is Working in Practice… What the Data Shows with Raise Commercial Real Estate CEO Justin Bedecarre and Felipe Gomez, President @ Raise. Outbound Always Works.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom Eric Yuan joined WebEx as one of the first several software engineers. He was instrumental in developing the WebEx videoconferencing technology and eventually became Vice President of Engineering. billion, and Yuan continued with the company as their Corporate Vice President of Engineering.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

with Peter Fernandez, COO & Co-Founder at Sirius Support Innovative businesses, investing, m&a and meeting great people with Paul Evans, EGM, Corporate Development at Xero SaaS distribution for SMBs in the African continent with Karan Bathija, VP, Customer Success at Terragon Limited PLUS 13 more Braindates that are ALREADY FULL!

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VP of Engineering Technical Cofounder Outsourcing Services CTO Coach 293

Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 14, 2023

Note: engineering leaders’ titles tend to be inconsistent across companies. It’s common for founders to assume the role of chief technology officer (CTO), who either runs the day-to-day work of engineering or focuses on a long-term technological vision.

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VP of Engineering Part-Time CTO CTO CTO Hire 75

SaaStr

JANUARY 19, 2021

How to Build a High Retention Sales Culture with Unity Technologies ‘ Vice President of Global Sales, Laura Palmer. How to Build a Great Intern Program from Scratch with Shopify VP of Engineering, Farhan Thawar. How to Do ABM Campaigns (For Real) in 2021 with Snowflake Director of ABM, Hillary Carpio.

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VP of Engineering Scale Engineering Retention 261

SaaStr

JANUARY 1, 2023

SaaStr 621: Big Numbers from Small Customers: How DigitalOcean Accelerated at Scale with DigitalOcean Senior Vice President of Revenue Cliff Bockard.  . SaaStr 619: 3 Lessons from Building a Marketing Engine to Grow Pipeline from Millions to Billions with Samsara CMO Sarah Patterson.   . But a Pretty Good Year for M&A.

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VP of Engineering Scale Mobile Scaling 243

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The product and engineering teams’ ability to quickly satisfy these demands limits progress. Over some time, product and engineering bevel and chamfer the product’s sharp edges. Regional vice presidents join the sales ranks. And the ball is passed back to product and engineering.

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VP of Engineering Startup Sales Hiring compliance 279

SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Jessie moved to Hong Kong in 2015, where she joined Credit Suisse as Vice President. Jessica Liu studied Business Administration in Hong Kong and within two years of working at HSBC, she became Vice President.

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VP of Engineering CTO Coach Venture Capital SaaS 264

SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Confluent’s President of Field Operations, Erica Schultz, explores different tactics businesses can employ to scale revenue and increase efficiency in the current macro environment. When engineered right, combining PLG motions with enterprise sales accelerates growth by engaging with different customers in precisely the way they want.

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VP of Engineering Scale Scaling Sales Hiring 245

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2023

SaaStr 622: CRO Confidential: What’s Changed for Hiring a VP of Sales in 2023 with Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and Stage 2 Capital LP and Former Lattice CRO Dini Mehta. . SaaStr 621: Big Numbers from Small Customers: How DigitalOcean Accelerated at Scale with DigitalOcean Senior Vice President of Revenue Cliff Bockard.   .

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VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring Revenue 246

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Previously, GC served as Vice President of Self-Serve Growth at Dropbox, and also led Product Marketing for the Developer Tools Division at Atlassian. Travis is Head of Founder Experience at Redpoint and was formerly SVP of Global Sales at Optimizely and VP of Platform Sales at Salesforce. How do you think about hiring?

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Enterprise readiness Software Engineering 227

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2021

But most of us under-hire at the senior level for one reason or another as we cross $1m-$2m in ARR, and there are two key times almost all founders hit organizational walls trying to do too much themselves: Trying to be the VP of Multiple Functional Areas beyond the date you have to; and. Each functional area needs a full-time VP to scale.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale Scaling 300

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Prior to Webflow, Rachel served as Vice President and General Manager of Dropbox’s Core Business, where she helped Dropbox go multi-product and built products for over 700 million users worldwide across 220 countries. . Last time we had a great one with Tifenn Dano Kwan, CMO at Amplitude, check it out here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

7:00 AM (40 MINS) – Product-led Growth: How to Execute Across the Full Funnel (and Mistakes We Made) with Reprise’s VP of Marketing and VP of Sales. 8:00 AM (50 MIN) – The Secrets to Building Your Marketing Engine To Drive Scale with Airtable CMO Archana Agrawal. LIVE TODAY! SaaStr Scale 2021 is starting soon.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2023

In last week’s Workshop Wednesday , President Sales & Field Engineering Chris Donato and SVP Business Development & Ecosystem Shelli Vivona shared how to scale out a go-to-market org. Celonis started 12 years ago in Germany and recently began its move into the U.S. This has resulted in amazing hypergrowth.

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Scale VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Engineering 242

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Vendr SaaS Consultant Katie Oates and Vendr Vice President of Customer Team Jeff Swank share eye-opening data and insights into buyer trends from 2023. As buyers grapple with expanding technology, higher prices, and a need for efficiency, SaaS companies need to deliver what their audience is looking for to win in the market.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Global Vice President for AWS Storage will deliver one of the keynotes. Data engines query the data rapidly, inexpensively. If you’re curious to learn more about cloud data lakes and engines, come to Subsurface. On top of these lakes, data movement companies move data to the right consumers.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? The VP of Sales. Great VPs of sales have gravitas and tact, command the room and hold their end of the table regardless of who is on the other side. This is why there are many choices when it comes to potential VP candidates.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

AUGUST 17, 2010

Managers reported to directors, reported to department vice-presidents, reported to division vice presidents, reported to group vice-presidents, ad infinitum. A Vice-President of Customer Experience But my interest in corporate titles was piqued recently.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2022

Top 5 Ways to Scale a Sales Team with Zoom CRO Ryan Azus and SaaStr VP of Sales Bryan Elsesser. Top 5 Ways to Scale a Sales Team with Zoom CRO Ryan Azus and SaaStr VP of Sales Bryan Elsesser. From Burn-Out to $100M in ARR with Jason Cohen, Founder of WP Engine. #15. We’re all watching more YouTube now! 148,000+ views.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

VP Nokia Software, North America Sales. Founder and President. Vice President Sales. President and Co-Founder. VP Europe Sales, Presales and Marketing. Vice President, Client Partnerships North America. Vice President. Regional Vice President of Sales. Leadership.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rajeev Dham and Karan Singh, Partners at Sapphire Ventures, and Jane Lee, Vice President at Sapphire walk us through how to double your “Magic Number,” a shorthand for your sales and marketing efficiency. Go-to-market (GTM) design and efficiency are sometimes overlooked, but they’re a critical driver of any SaaS business.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve done so much great content with Atlassian over the years, with CEO Michael-Cannon Brooks to Trello Founder and CEO Michael Pryor to ex-President Jay Simons, and the learnings are always amazing. In fact, Atlassian sees Free as its key engine of growth for the next decade. And a huge investment in R&D since inception.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2021

“Hyperscaling At Scale with PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada” A terrific session with PagerDuty’s and Sendgrid’s CEOs on how to keep a growth engine … growing. #3. “Why Founders Should Prioritize Personal Development with Shopify’s President and Felicis” . #4

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

At this year’s SaaStr Annual, Adobe’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products, Scott Belsky shares the 5 waves of change we can expect from AI in creative spaces and how this will change how brands of all sizes will create and deliver content at scale. Social media teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Episode 573 of the podcast is an excerpt from the recording, and you can find the full transcript below. Jason Lemkin: Hey everybody. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. It was packed.

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