SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years.

Sales Hiring 231

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 231

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. .” And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 233

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does Karl think about working with recruiters? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why?

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 240

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

Scale 250

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 250

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sales enablement is easy.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 117

ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

is a much worthier investment for your 2020. The Athletic 's strategy for the past three years has been to hire top-talent journalists in the sports space, getting people to pay for high-quality journalistic content. Brendan Schwartz , Co-Founder and CTO over at Wistia, has spent a lot of time learning to trust his instincts.

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO Sales Hiring 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 211

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale CTO Hire 159