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Right Co-Founder … Wrong CEO. Could That Be You? Be Honest.

SaaStr

This happens with some regularity in SaaS, I’ve learned (and to be clear: I’m not talking about any company I’ve invested in, am an advisor to, board member of, etc – Because when it’s still a very small team, with no true management team … co-founders can kind of hack it to $1m-$2m in ARR together.

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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

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. 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. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a 7, if you round up from 6.3.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

She has won various awards such as Top Sales Leader, TAG One in a Millenial Awards 2016 and Power 30 Under 30 winner 2016. She has helped a lot of venture-backed companies scale their sales teams and partnered with early-stage companies to find their first crucial sales hire.

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Digital Biology

Andreessen Horowitz

She left Stanford to cofound Coursera with Andrew Ng and is now the founder and CEO of Insitro, a tech bio company using AI to develop drugs in life sciences. Daphne: I think it comes back to this ability to collect, but even more than collect, generate data at scale. Vijay: Daphne is the OG’s OG in AI.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Cassie is an operating partner at Primary Venture Partners, where she works closely with Primary’s portfolio companies to help them build, scale and optimize their go-to-market efforts. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. Cassie Young.

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