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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. So now, you’ll be able to go upstairs and you’ll hear the honest stories, right, of how a marketing leader, the CMO, works with the CCO. I mean, literally.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

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My role at Buildium In late 2009 the economy had tanked and I had a newly minted MBA but no real job experience. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually. As a result, Buildium grew to $15M in revenue with a sales team that was most often just two sales reps.

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

SaaStr

Then I went over to the sales department. They said, well Nancy, that marketing machine you just met, they generate all these consistent leads. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We were profitable by 2009. We schedule a demo in the same day.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2009. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Founded: 2009. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. Now, Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that helps make the Internet more secure, fast, and reliable, with a market cap of more than $6B. And so we started to work on this in 2009. And today, of course, we have a recruiting team.

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2009. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Founded: 2009. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+