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SaaStr
OCTOBER 25, 2023
For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Let’s jump right into the questions.
SaaStr
JULY 14, 2022
What started as a simple WordPress blog in 2012 has now become the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. We do that with a combination of industry-leading content and community connections. 2017 The Third SaaStr Annual: Scale Together. SaaStr is turning 10!
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.
SaaStr
JULY 10, 2021
The panelists offer their insights, which at times conflict with the viewpoints of other panelists, on hiring a cohesive team that can really scale the business. Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. We also do UberConference.
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. As soon as you become good at a job - sales, product, marketing - you know enough to hire the person to replace you. It’s the only way to scale the business. Second, you must fire yourself way before you think you do.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 21, 2022
What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
And, you go in the wayback machine to 2012, when I started Amplify, Amplify one was me and $49.1 I guess, if my strategy was to show up and to try and lead an $80 million round and write a $50 million check to do that, and you’re like, “Wait a second, 275 divided by five people, your piece of that’s probably 55.
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