SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

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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. 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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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

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 the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? Jason Lemkin: But it does help for recruiting and other things as you scale, doesn’t it?

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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. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders.

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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 What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? million, call it 50. One person, 50. That’s true.

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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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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

Based on interviews with B2B SaaS experts who have built and scaled product-led businesses, we designed a new user journey. Scale: how to keep users happy and capture more value. The New User Journey is made up of five steps that follow how a user finds, decides to use, discovers value, pays for, and scales usage of your product. .

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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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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

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. Outreach supports sales reps by enabling them to humanize communication at scale and by automating the manual work. What You’ll Learn. The first is Showpad.

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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. Development costs fell as it became possible to build, maintain and continuously improve a single codebase for all customers. How did your company adopt Slack?

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. But, retention can always be better. “If

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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 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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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

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: That’s great.

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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. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. In 2012, Wall Street didn’t really know how to value SaaS companies. Rob Gonzalez: Yeah.

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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

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable. This episode is brought to you by Loopio.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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. Co-Founder of Utah Women in Sales. Ang McManamon.

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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 seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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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

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

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Before Slack, Rachel spent four years at LinkedIn, where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team.

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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. At what scale does that become impossible? Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Why is this? Just myself and Jake.

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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. Feeling that AI FOMO?

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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. The fix: moving upsell and expansion to a dedicated sales team.

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