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The Top 10 Reasons to Attend 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

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Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! Finding and recruiting top talent is consistently ranked as one of the biggest challenges for growing SaaS companies.

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The Playbook to Recruiting Your Sales Team with Brex Chief Sales Officer Sam Blond (Video + Transcript)

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Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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The #1 Best Hack to Making Sure a VP of Sales or Top AE Will Work Out

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We’ve talked a ton on SaaStr over the years on how to make sure your VP of Sales and top hires really work out. We can pretty much summarize a lot of it into the following: Your VP of Sales should have lots of experience selling at your average ACV. for that type of sale. That they are the right ones. Ask who they are.

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Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs and Lightspeed

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Back then, remote first was a recruiting advantage. Cloud was a big unlock for monetization. The way the co-founders looked at the stages in the early days of no funding and a community-focus were: Step 1 – No sales or customers, only building freely available open-source software. Today, not so much. Step 2 – ??

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

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They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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CRO Confidential: Principles that drove Wiz’s $0 to $100M Journey with Wiz CRO Colin Jones (Pod 665 + Video)

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The company helps enterprises internationally with contextual and actionable insights to secure their cloud infrastructure. Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. CROs should focus on capturing that unrealized demand which is not a sales-led effort.

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SaaStr Podcast #379 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin: “The Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Their First Sales Team”

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379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. Announcer: In today’s SaaStr Insider, SaaStr CEO and founder, Jason Lemkin, shared the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales team.