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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

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You can watch the full session , and if you missed the podcast with the first half of the interview, you’ll find that here. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. What’s that going to do to your company? They hired good people.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

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So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. The very first few sales hire are I would say not your typical reps. Laura Bilazarian : Awesome.

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

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Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Mallun Yen : So, when did you hire employee 34?

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

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We needed to stay relevant along the customer’s journey and we needed to find our own cloud provider that was going to allow for us to scale quickly, to have the security that we knew customers were demanding when they were searching for cloud platforms. And what challenge that presented to us was how do we do that quickly.

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Customer Interviews: The Most Insightful B2B Marketing Technique Marketers Often Ignore

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After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. The problem was, it was very hard to find people to talk to about your prototype and conduct your research. As people or members of the same team, we’re biased.

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Customer Interviews: The Most Insightful B2B Marketing Technique Marketers Often Ignore

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After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. The problem was, it was very hard to find people to talk to about your prototype and conduct your research. As people or members of the same team, we’re biased.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * Harry Stebbings.