2017 AWS Sales Hiring 
Clouded Judgement
JUNE 19, 2024
The charts below show the change in quarterly revenue YoY (so Q1 ‘24 rev - Q1 ‘23 rev) going back to 2017. It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). In theory, any growth rate is possible with an unlimited budget to hire AEs.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. This is really founder-led sales. It is staggering.
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SaaStr
JUNE 25, 2019
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. 18 hires a year I had to make in San Francisco.
SaaStr
JUNE 3, 2020
And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. And the reality is most of them don’t, most of our customers and prospects don’t trust us, especially those of us in sales.
SaaStr
AUGUST 20, 2019
” Sameer Dhokalia: It was really helpful to not have any of the usual dynamics, and it is fairly common, to have dynamics between founders and a hired CEO. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. I had none of those. That was to my great benefit. This business is special.
Baremetrics
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Given you probably just finished closing your books for 2017, it’s a good time to introduce changes to plan for the coming year. The main accounts are: Cost of Revenue. Sales & Marketing. First, let’s look at setting up your Cost of Revenue (sometimes called Cost of Sales, or Cost of Goods Sold ). Cost of Revenue.
Chart Mogul
DECEMBER 22, 2021
This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud. To thank the team for their efforts, and commemorate ChartMogul’s 7th anniversary, our CEO, Nick, hired Russ Hanneman, everyone’s favorite brilliant billionaire investor. You can find the ones from past years here – 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , and 2016.
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