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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

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The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Crushing the Pivot: Lessons Learned from a Product Reboot with TaskRabbit (Video + Transcript)

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What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. These are sales goals. We want to increase sales by 20% this quarter and just do whatever it takes to win. How many of you are familiar with TaskRabbit, have you used TaskRabbit? We had to be okay.

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How to Become a VP of Sales by the Time You’re 30

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Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

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Six Lessons on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid (Video + Transcript)

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And when we met Mary, we were just lucky that it was a great mix of having those deep finance roots and then thinking about it in a truly innovative and kind of a forward-leaning way. Zach : As we built our sales team, initially it was basically all self-service with a couple human interactions.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

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From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. So we launched the company in February of 2008. We launched the company in 2008.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

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And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. You could recruit, you could do fundraising rounds, you could do all this stuff and then you would have arrived. Think about that.

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PODCAST 87: How to Pitch ‘Category Creation’ to your CFO or CEO with Anthony Kennada

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Anthony Kennada , CMO at Front. If you missed episode 86 , check it out here: PODCAST 86: Strategic Vs Tactical Approach in Sales Planning with Mary Rogul. Anthony’s journey from sales to product to marketing. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.