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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

sales team. We disrupted this space and ended up pushing out software vendors that had been doing this for 25, 30 years. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. Good afternoon.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2017, he co-founded B2B Stack, a software review marketplace that boosts the buying process of B2B tech in Brazil. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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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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Salesforce vs HubSpot: CRM Titans Compared for 2025

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In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Its early vision was to end software as we knew it instead delivering enterprise applications via the internet.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. I’m here.” Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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How bots, messengers and apps will define 2019 with Des Traynor, Paul Adams and Emmet Connolly

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Bots are great at things that are suitable for computer calculations, like when your next bill is due. They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. Google Now looks a lot like it did in 2014. But it exists now.

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