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PODCAST 28: How High Growth SaaS Companies Build and Lead Sales Teams w/ Chris Degnan

Sales Hacker

Chris is a 20 year Silicon Valley veteran having launched the first part of his career at EMC before finding his way to Snowflake in 2013. The secrets to effective leadership and management. We are native to the cloud, we are on AWS, we are on Microsoft, Azure, and next year we’ll be on Google Cloud as well.

Scale 80
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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). SaaS companies now report 9 competitors on average , up from just 2 back in 2013. It takes sustained resources, focus and executive leadership in order to master it.

Scale 70
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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

I’ve been working remotely since 2013, when I walked into the office of the best boss I’ve ever had and asked for permission to work remotely. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. I was hell-bent on moving to San Diego, and had every intention of leaving a job that I loved if the answer was “no.”

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). SaaS companies now report 9 competitors on average , up from just 2 back in 2013. It takes sustained resources, focus and executive leadership in order to master it.

Scale 51
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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). SaaS companies now report 9 competitors on average , up from just 2 back in 2013. It takes sustained resources, focus and executive leadership in order to master it.

Scale 40
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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. So they had an idea and fast forward 2013 the company went public. Responses was acquired by Oracle, Neolane was acquired by Adobe all in 2012 and 2013. We were trying to go public in 2013.

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