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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

SaaStr

His view is your sales team teaches your customers how to get value out of your product. Ron explains: “Wehire mostly technical backgrounds, but as our customers get larger and larger, you start to get global account managers, and they’re going to have much more business strategic account management experience.

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11 Data-Driven Sales Enablement Tips from Brand Leaders at Dreamforce 2019

Sales Hacker

The Data-Driven Sales Manager. The average tenure of a sales VP these days is just 19 months, according to Xactly CEO Chris Cabrera, who expects that number to drop lower as businesses become increasingly data reliant. Here’s how he sees data changing sales management. They also hire more diversely.

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

SaaStr

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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Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social. ‘Just Build’ with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Even though HubSpot grew 23% at $2.5B, there was weaker demand and longer sales cycles, and they had to do pilots with CEOs and CIOs. You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. Salesforce is pushing toward 40% margins, but where will you invest if you can’t hire anyone?

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Leveraging AI in SaaS: Current Trends and Future Directions

How To Buy Saas

Most interestingly, we’ll discuss how artificial intelligence has improved the operation of SaaS businesses over the years and what to expect next. Moreover, there were slower innovation cycles compared to the cloud-based SaaS model that we know now, thanks to the advent of smart neural networks. Mobile-friendly design.

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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

Suddenly, the LLM is spitting out your code or your source. You want to build your own LLM from scratch? They can do it; they’ve done it for large customers. I did not unleash our sales force and go to a market of 3000 people to sell the thing we bought because we just can’t satisfy the demand.