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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

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It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. After the launch of ChatGPT, they went from 30 leads a week to 10,000.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: OpenAI’s Head of Sales, New Workshop Wednesday with Divvy, SaaStr’s CEO and lots more!

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10+ Actionable Things You Can Do To Scale Faster In The Early Days The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work The Challenge with SMB SaaS: High Growth Can Only Mask High Churn For Just So Long (Updated) Dear SaaStr: My Top Sales Rep Made $600,000 a Year — And Just Quit! What Happened?

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

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For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: What is the Future of Lead Generation, and How Do You Stand Out? That’s very telling.

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How to Build Go-to-Market Efficiency in SMB Sales with Owner.com CRO Kyle Norton

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How do you build GTM efficiency in SMB sales? Ways to scale that don’t include rampant inefficiency and burn. You shouldn’t be adding a bunch of sales reps or spending a bunch of money on marketing if the economics aren’t sustainable. While this title is SMB-oriented, the advice applies to Mid-Market and Enterprise, too.

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7 Things the Best Sales Reps Get Right and 8 Ways the Rest Make Things Worse

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In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares the 7 things the best sales reps get right and the 8 ways the rest make things worse. #1: The best sales reps solve your problems. When you’re doing so well that you’re in order-taking mode, sales reps don’t have to solve a problem.

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

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Examples like ChatGPT and Perplexity demonstrate how AI applications can be adopted through PLG strategies. Large enterprises have an immediate need for governance solutions to handle AI at scale. Product-led growth (PLG) motion applies well to AI-powered products.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Elastic at $1.25 Billion in ARR

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In some ways, Elastic may be under some of the most theoretical threats of all from ChatGPT and the like. After all, ChatGPT is the first threat in search in many ways. That’s a solid +60% logo growth at scale. Channel Sales Are Important. Still, Wall Street seemed to like its slower but efficient growth.

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