Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

SaaS companies tend to have more Finance headcount than traditional, non-Cloud companies. Median Finance headcount in private, growth SaaS companies averaging $25M is 7 Finance executives. Cross-functional experience – helpful to have worked in SalesOps, Business Development or Strategy but have the Finance experience as well.

Finance 40

Finance CTO Hire Headcount Sales Hiring 40

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

How many CSMs should you hire? And in this article he explains why, and proposes a different approach to thinking about the optimal CSM headcount to help you build a more effective customer success organization. The question is not whether a CSM is a valuable asset to a SaaS business, but rather, how valuable are they? Weekend Wisdom.

Scale 43

Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

China Is Playing a Different Game Entirely The Models Youve Barely Heard Of: DeepSeek R1: 93% performance of OpenAI’s o3-mini at fraction of training cost Alibaba Qwen 2.5-Max: As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2%

AI Search 249

AI Search AI CTO Hire ChatGPT 249

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? We were hired into the same role, same start date, competed head to head. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. I met Molly, who was the COO at the time, Molly Graham.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 233

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. Maybe we don’t need, uh, this additional headcount that I just wanted to build my team.

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Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 77

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. 14:58) The evolution of Levelset’s sales motion and pricing strategy. (29:06) Let’s go hire somebody. I’ll hire the person.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 112