Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

AI isn’t perfect but its productivity gains are undeniable. 1 Fueled by AI. Interviewers also face a new challenge: developing golden standards to evaluate AI fluency. Will they feed legal briefs back into AI systems for cross-examination? Safe convergence doubtful. What Shackleton might have written in 2025.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: I can leave my horrible sales job making $240k OTE and be a solopreneur. You can listen to the full podcast here. #1:

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Marketing Scale 302

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. For instance, Founders Fund doesn’t really invest in AI, health tech, or edtech, even if you’re growing 5x. On the sales side, people hired way too much.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We will do four and a half times what we did last year and be able to be a half a billion dollar AI company in about 18 months. The market now called RPA, which is the fastest path to using AI in a company now. We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recruiters are still reporting it as a challenging time to fill roles, with both employers and candidates being more gun shy than previously. Nailing the interview process: Here’s one way to nail the interview process once the interview is landed: 1. Have the 1st interview. At Demandbase, data wins every time.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Chuck is the co-founder of Blueprint Expansion , a GTM roles recruiting firm that has helped over 50 VC-backed companies make amazing Sales, Marketing, & Customer Success hires. By using the power of AI to identify and engage the accounts and buying groups most likely to purchase.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Feeling that AI FOMO? Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Youre not alone. Why HG Insights?

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

” Keith : And so in today’s world that can mean AI co-founder if you’re building a company that leverages data science. You don’t know how to interview them. Why don’t you interview this person?” One, a VP sales. A VP of sales is a misnomer. You need someone needing sales.

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Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 274

OpenView Labs

APRIL 4, 2019

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a technological breakthrough with potential applications for nearly every industry. The proliferation of AI-powered tools, software systems, and devices is also dramatically transforming the way that recruiters source top talent. Recruiting technology can bring fresh hiring strategies to life.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

I landed several interviews thanks to the service and would highly recommend it to those looking for a new opportunity.  I’ve noticed an uptick in banner ads promising everything from AI assistance to increased profile views — and I was curious to put it to the test.  It just might.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. A more scientific interview process [20:35]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

” Keith : And so in today’s world that can mean AI co-founder if you’re building a company that leverages data science. You don’t know how to interview them. Why don’t you interview this person?” One, a VP sales. A VP of sales is a misnomer. You need someone needing sales.

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Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 222

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. We are the soldiers companies are trying to recruit to help them win the battle for talent. The second army are your main competitors.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They discussed the wide-ranging implications that generative AI will have across fintech and how it will boost jobs, rather than replace them. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. My general view is that every part of AI will be way better next year.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Start implementing a dogfooding program by recruiting users from across the organization, especially those not involved in the product development. Use surveys , interviews, session recordings, and product analytics to gather insights. In a nutshell, it follows the same process as any other type of testing or experimentation.

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Unbounce

JUNE 23, 2023

Here’s a question that pretty much every marketer is pondering (and maybe losing some sleep over): What does the future hold for marketing in a world of AI tools ? Through a lively and insight-filled conversation, this episode explores burning questions like: What happens to SEO if search engine results are replaced by AI chatbots ?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

Second, the power of AI in customer experience will become more evident and accessible—an innovation we at ChurnZero have jumped on with the introduction of Customer Success AI. 2023 will be a breakout year for digital Customer Success, customer intelligence, and AI-fueled outcomes at SaaS companies. AI is real and it works.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2024

I landed several interviews thanks to the service and would highly recommend it to those looking for a new opportunity.  I’ve noticed an uptick in banner ads promising everything from AI assistance to increased profile views — and I was curious to put it to the test.  It just might.

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Technical Review Systems Review Sales Recruiting AI Search 91

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Wiza’s accuracy-obsessed B2B contact database offers 99% coverage of LinkedIn profiles as well as a powerful Chrome extension that enables you to access contact data while browsing LinkedIn profiles and when exporting from Sales Nav. During interviews, it’s easy for disappointment to creep in at this stage. That’s sales.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Hotjar is a product experience insights platform with heatmaps, surveys, and interviewing capabilities. Each product — Observe, Ask, and Engage — has a Basic plan that is free forever but limits the number of website sessions, feedback responses, or customer interviews in a certain period. What is Hotjar pricing?

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You need a range of disciplines working together in a cross-functional team to make sure various product development processes go to plan, including product managers , developers, marketers , sales, designers , senior leaders , and more. Senior management. The final step is to launch your product.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Wes Ulysse , Head of Sales, North America at Red Points, a SaaS company that’s leveraging AI and machine learning to protect brands’ online intellectual property. Wes started his professional career as an accountant for the New York City Ballet.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

You can collect feedback from your customer base via in-app surveys, feedback widgets, interviews, and by monitoring social media mentions and reviews. Interview existing customers Another good way to identify emerging market gaps is by interviewing your customers. How do you recruit your interviewees?

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User Pilot

JULY 9, 2023

An example of good usability is a growth platform that enables product and customer success teams to quickly create quality microcopy thanks to an intuitive and easy-to-use AI-powered writing assistant. This may translate into increased sales and greater customer loyalty. Modal recruiting test participants.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 27, 2019

To dive into best practices, I spoke with Jenny Shedd , a Recruiting and Talent Strategy Consultant, who guides startups on ATS buy-in from senior leadership and implementation. An ATS is just as important to a company as Salesforce.com is to sales and JIRA is to engineering. What the interview process will look like.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. And I have my sales team in France who’ve been through the great process.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Company Culture 120

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

One of the consequences of this is that the sales cycles slow down. Create strategic value PMs are under a lot of pressure to deliver features – from the sales team chasing a deal, the customer service colleagues trying to alleviate customer pain points, and executive leadership eyeing market expansion or increased market share.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 105

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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User Pilot

JUNE 16, 2024

The Product Metrics Benchmark Report is based on first-party data from 547 SaaS companies from different verticals (Martech, CRM & Sales, Fintech & Insurance, Healthcare, HR, Edtech, AI & ML, and other business services) and growth models (PLG vs SLG). It looks into 6 key metrics: User Activation Rate. Time to Value (TTV).

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Stripo offers a pre-sign up interactive demo that brings prospects to their ‘Aha’ moment before they even create an account. Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot.

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User Pilot

JULY 21, 2024

TL;DR This is a specialist who educates people about a company’s products or services, including new employees, sales teams, and customers. Sales teams : Helping them understand the product’s features and benefits to better sell it to customers. It also comes with AI chatbots to provide real-time assistance.

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User Pilot

JUNE 26, 2024

Common customer experience roles include: Entry-level positions (0-2 years) – Roles like customer service representative, sales associate, or retail associate act as an entry point to a career in customer experience. Best tool for CX: Zendesk – It offers a robust CRM solution to organize and manage customer data.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2024

Common customer experience roles include: Entry-level positions (0-2 years) – Roles like customer service representative, sales associate, or retail associate act as an entry point to a career in customer experience. When recruiting a CX specialist, most hiring managers look for candidates with at least a high school diploma.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Jess Hun t , Head of Global Marketing, Sales & Strategy for Axiom about creating a revenue model. How to develop a sophisticated sales recruiting engine. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 3) A career in sales and marketing [3:30].

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