Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. Ask him about how to start a Salesforce consultancy.). Eddie Reynolds , CEO, Union Square Consulting. Jacki Leahy , Salesforce Consultant at Eustace Consulting.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s part of everyone’s DNA, and I do recognize that.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

The company’s leadership should work to identify potential compliance gaps by analyzing data management practices, security protocols, documentation processes, and employee training programs. Book a free consult today. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

And I think for CSMs that are watching you do have to plot a course to having value either in the product knowledge or domain knowledge or being consultative or whatever. You don’t need to have this 12 month engagement with some consulting firm and all this work. From contract signature to launch.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. You become a hired CEO primarily through one path — climbing the corporate ladder at a large tech company [5a], reaching the GM or CXO level, and then deciding to branch out. First-time CEOs. Thankfully, most founder/CEOs don’t need to be reminded of that.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time. Sales enablement is easy.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That’s pretty wild if you think about it, but the source of the problem is quite clear to me: CMOs are failing to build trust with their CEOs and leadership teams. Co-founder Marketing Consultant Full-time Head of Marketing Here’s an overview of how the trust building process has differed in each capacity.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. He is with Sixteen Ventures, a consulting firm that helps grow SaaS companies. He posts regularly on social media on SaaS vision, leadership, and product. Omer Khan is a business consultant who helps SaaS companies through his company SaaS Club.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

But after a stint as a consultant I came out to Stanford back in the late ’90s in the dot-com era. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? So I was doing environmental consulting. We were hired into the same role, same start date, competed head to head. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

What we are seeing is that often there are companies with 2 co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and marketing is often left behind. If you have some sort of budget – I’d recommend hiring someone in-house. Having said that, the channels will be somewhat different – trade publications and thought leadership will be more important.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Discussed in this Episode: When to hire your first account executives Key traits to look for in early sales hires Structuring compensation for first sales reps Should you ‘hire the buyer’ to be your sales rep? 31:55 Hiring for grit, curiosity & determination. What does Joe look like at that time?

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

A stock option plan that is too small, without back-up or consultation. Don’t force VCs to find out in due diligence that only 2 percent of the pool, not the customary 15 percent or so, is available for new hires. A charismatic CEO is able to get investor excited, but the CTO, and/or the rest of the team is just weak.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Discussed in this Episode: The turnaround story of Cassie’s time at Sailthru and overcoming scaling challenges. The importance of leadership alignment and transparency during times of crisis. Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. And we had real challenges with stability.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I’m not going to claim to be the founder of Levelset, but that founding team, CTO, VP of customer experience, chief legal, our CFO, who kind of came later, but like that group, everyone stayed with the organization in executive roles the whole time. Let’s go hire somebody. I’ll hire the person.

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