User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And the end of 2012, or beginning of 2013, we actually met, and decided to start one called Pagar.me Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. Anu: And then the rest of the team? The first end team. Henrique: So, one, you need a team.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 214

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Ryan Smith: No. That’s it.

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Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 160

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. Jason Lemkin: Together as a team, right? Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 210

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. Any thoughts? Aaron : No.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. We founded the company 2012 in Paris. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Eight years ago, we founded the company, September 2012. So we had a deep experience in the e-commerce space and it just, in 2012, it felt right. In 2012, Wall Street didn’t really know how to value SaaS companies. In 2012, no one took Amazon seriously, really. I say most recently, but quite a few years ago, now.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. Nick Mehta: Yeah.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 154

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. What are the counter-intuitive strategies Neha has found work when it comes to motivating remote teams? * You should be. Harry Stebbings: Okay.

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Scale Technical Review Sales Hiring Technical Advisors 289

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There I transitioned into sales leadership. Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I want to lead and inspire larger teams while being a successful mother. . Andrea Johnson. Ang McManamon.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Working sessions. Talent in 2024.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 105

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

Currently growing 100% year over year, working with companies to un-silo their operations and create one strategic revenue ops team to support their Go To Market strategy. Why does Jason believe that we have to remove handoffs between go to market teams? How should North Star’s be segregated between GTM teams and biz ops teams?

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The company went public in 2009 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012 for $270m, a 50% premium on existing share price. Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? The company went public in 2009, and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012, for $270 million, a 50% premium on the existing share price.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. We didn’t take our first dollar of outside capital until 2012 for that business.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2025

The early days When Martin joined Levelset (formerly ZLien) in 2012, the company was a far cry from the high-growth SaaS business it would eventually become. Martin himself wasnt the obvious choice for a sales leadership role. The fix: moving upsell and expansion to a dedicated sales team. The result? The launch of Default 2.0

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. 35:30) Optimal team structures for SMB sales organizations. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46)

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