Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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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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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I wish I had been in Stanford’s CS183 class in 2012, the year Peter Thiel taught it. So, to maximize profits and minimize costs, a startup should prohibit competitors from developing. Second, network effects that enable the business to grow faster as it scales. Stay lean and flexible :: A bad plan is better than no plan.

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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. These companies can scale really efficiently. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why press isn’t something he stressed when scaling and neither should you. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is?

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. We’ve got two awesome other people on our team, Amanda and [Jamara 00:08:18].

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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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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

This means that the product is doing some of the heavy lifting that used to belong to marketing and sales and giving them new areas of focus. . Because it assumes that prospective customers will only encounter the product with a sales or customer success representative alongside them. Getting Users. . Crickets. . Hard to know.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. He discusses how to scale a multi-billion dollar SaaS company, as well as the key elements to navigating a successful career. How to hack your hiring process to drive scale. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This was in 2012, and we were based in New York City. And in 2012, if you’ll remember, that was when they kicked all the Zuccotti Park protestors outta Zuccotti Park. But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. And so we did that a lot.

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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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

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. And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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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? One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? You need to discover in the sales process. I don’t know anyone right now. I mean, what do they do?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? 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. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. What does it take to expand effectively?

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Most Dynamic Women Sales Leaders.

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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. Atypical in our world, but Neha scaled the business to well over $1M in ARR before raising funding. You should be.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high performing organizations across North America. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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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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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. Ari is a partner of Techstars on the ventures team and has been a VC for about five years and has more than a decade of experience as an entrepreneur.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. Ari is a partner of Techstars on the ventures team and has been a VC for about five years and has more than a decade of experience as an entrepreneur.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. Ari is a partner of Techstars on the ventures team and has been a VC for about five years and has more than a decade of experience as an entrepreneur.

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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. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Michael Katz is the Founder & CEO @ mParticle, the customer data platform for brands leading the customer data revolution with clients from Airbnb to Spotify to Postmates. The company went public in 2009 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012 for $270m, a 50% premium on existing share price. Where do many go wrong here?

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. With the rise of product-led growth, are we seeing a fundamental shift in the structure of sales and marketing? Loving our podcast content? How does Rachel think about the optimal ratio of paid to organic in growth?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Loving our podcast content?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Currently, he’s the founder of MartinRoth.com, specializing in helping startups scale from $1M to $10M in ARR. 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. Youre not alone.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. Former Levelset CRO Martin Rothtakes us behind the scenes of scaling a company from $0 to over $25 million ARR and a successful exit to Procore. They also had no sales playbook for 5 years, then had a $500M exit.

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