SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. I invest across consumer, B2B SaaS companies, and then also dev tools and infrastructure companies as well. These are sales goals. How many of you are familiar with TaskRabbit, have you used TaskRabbit?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a global technology focused investment firm. 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. My name is Becky Buckman.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2019

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.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At some point in their growth, businesses usually start investing in customer research. They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. And that was a revelation for me as a product manager. Liam: I love the title as well. That was another challenge to make sure was addressed as well.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Jason Purcell, Co-founder and CEO of Salsify, saw firsthand the crippling economic impacts of the 2008 Great Recession. In building Salsify, a product experience management company, he and his executive team expected another recession to occur at some point, and they knew they’d have to plan for the worst.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. For instance, recruiters with first-hand customer experience are able to give job candidates real examples of what it’s like to work at Zapier.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. Instead of marketing, Zoho invests in R&D and customer service. Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. Paperflite.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2008. Based in: New York. Funding to date: $234M. Founded: 2009.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. Felix : Yeah, sure.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? Harry Stebbings: Totally, in terms of that sales cycle.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Anthony made his way into the world of SaaS starting in the sales team at Box and how that led to his entering the world of marketing and creating the customer success category. * How does this compare to the relationship of sales and marketing more traditionally?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In the summer of 2015, Box co-founder Aaron Levie recruited Jeetu Patel to create an open platform where developers could build Box content management into their own products. The focus was investing in this ecosystem that we thought would be really successful. It’s gone really well, and we’ve made a lot of investments.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2008. Based in: New York. Funding to date: $234M. Founded: 2009.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. Before joining Redpoint, Tomasz was the product manager for Google’s AdSense social-media products and AdSense internationalization. What is Tom’s favorite book and why?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash. What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? Why does this have such a high rate of failure?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add. What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And today, of course, we have a recruiting team. We have a great recruiting team and they partner with the hiring managers. But even to this day, hiring managers are responsible for building their teams.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. What are the benefits of starting in SMB?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. I always say kind of tele-sales are the most important form of kind of training in terms of sales.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front row seat at some of these turnarounds at iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap, which is undergoing its own transformation. And what’s the best case?

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