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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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They’re booking a million bucks a year and then the next person is doing $200k, and then, there are four guys that can’t close anything. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. They know how to the close to develop the relationship.

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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)

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Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

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But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. They were a small company.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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After TalentBin was acquired, I ended up writing a book on startup sales and sales for founders called Founding Sales. Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. This is in Founding Sales , as a result.