SaaStr

JULY 4, 2019

Matt Schatz is SVP of Sales at WPEngine, responsible for defining and executing the global sales strategy. Matt has nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in sales and customer growth, specifically for technology companies with customers around the world including Bazaarvoice, CityVoice and Rackspace. It is hard.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix : It was a lot easier to invest to convince customers and investors and so we actually, I mean more of a European way of scaling a company. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. So that’s how I’m rationalizing it now.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why press isn’t something he stressed when scaling and neither should you. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Jared started, this is in 2002, he’s got the Antonio Banderas look going on there. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Ryan Smith: The Smith family.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Why and how you must lead with your product.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. One person, 50. I don’t know if they should think anything of it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. Once you’re selling and starting to scale and now you need a team. And in parallel we went off and build SteelBrick. And selling with passion.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. * How does David think about scaling sales teams? Three of these companies went public.

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