SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2025

Building Top-Performing Sales Orgs: Hard-Won Lessons from Scaling 4 Unicorns (Including OpenAI’s Hypergrowth from 10 to 500 People) Maggie Hott has spent 15 years building go-to-market teams at four unicorns that collectively represent over $500B in market value. These are her personal views, not those of OpenAI.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. Or churn will increase, NPS will stagnate and decline, and upsell and revenue retention will be a fraction of what it could be.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. She can be your CTO forever.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve gathered a list of articles, videos, and podcasts you can check out: Score Your Company’s SOC 2 Readiness. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. And then, it allows companies to be more enterprise-ready. So we’re hiring across the board, all departments.

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