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Building A $5.6b Company With A Product-Led Flywheel With Postman’s CEO Abhinav Asthana (Pod 528 + Video)

SaaStr

Abhinav Asthana , founder and CEO of Postman , knows that journey very well, having started Postman as a mere side project in 2012, only to launch it as an enterprise platform almost a decade later. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Hiring a VP of Sales with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. But for a non-sales or marketing product, a tech or development product, or products that are more complicated than the last sale are likely to implode because they can’t learn it on the fly. There’s no way.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. And also very fast onboarding. For example, never onboarding. The first end team.

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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The P9 Guide to Cohort Analysis in SaaS (v0.9)

Point Nine Land

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.