Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Our second sponsor is Outreach, the number-one sales engagement platform. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. And before jumping head first into technology, he had the privilege of building his marketing and sales expertise at the NBA, CBRE, and Icon to name a few. We’re on iTunes.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 6, 2019

I don’t know your company’s story, but I’m guessing it went like this: Jane heard about Slack from a friend, so she signed up and started using it with her team. Long sales processes, complex implementation, formal training and certification—the list goes on. Most software companies dream of seeing people adopt their product like this.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

To end our analogy—creating a lean core could mean you hire a professional trainer to obtain better results. Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. Like your core, pricing is a wildly untapped growth lever.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Usually, it requires an outbound sales motion. The last point here is that hiring can really be a big lever. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. They were just an additional sales channel. What does it take to expand effectively?

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 1, 2018

I originally gravitated toward Customer Success because at the time this movement started to gain momentum (2011?), You have Bad-fit Customers. Perhaps you have a lot of bad-fit customers, even more in the pipeline, and even more you’re currently paying to get in front of via SDRs or Marketing campaigns. Double ugh.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sales enablement is easy.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. How does the structure of your marketing team need to change with the evolution?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

As for Jon, prior to being Chief Customer Officer at Box, he was Senior VP of Customer Success, responsible for all post-sales services Box provides from implementation to user adoption and more. How to build an engineering team. That was 2011. This podcast is an excerpt of Pat’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. Hire people who can point those out and help you to constantly progress. Perhaps you could just give us a bit of background – why did we hire you as CEO?

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

How does Mike think about when is the right time to hire your first CRO? How does this hire correlate to your hiring in sales enablement? How does Mike make sales data really actionable within the company? What is the right way to structure their sales pipeline? Who should be involved in analyzing this data?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

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