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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. million in 2014.). million in 2014.). A SaaStr Classic!!

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. And actually when we started, I see one face in the room that I recognize, Kurt Freytag, was one of our big customers at the time when I joined. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. So over time, don’t hire resumes necessarily.

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GTM 125: From Flip-Flops to a $500M Exit as CRO, Secrets to Scaling with Martin Roth

Sales Hacker

35:30) Optimal team structures for SMB sales organizations. (52:25) And that made it a lot easier for me to build the SMB sales motion that we ended up being the core sales motion that we built at Levelset. Because it was 2014, 2015, and he’s having Mark Roberge in the early days of HubSpot before they went public.

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