User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. “The biggest thing I can do for Slack is to hire people who know a lot more than I do and give them free rein to do their best work” Adam Risman: You mentioned the team started with performance marketing.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. ” I’m kind of like, “Even if you make one or two sales in the next couple of months, with your VP sales, it’s going to take you three months to go and hire.”

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New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 182

Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

Experienced payments and sales executive joins Stax leadership team to drive accelerated growth for Stax Connect and embedded payments. Krahl’s appointment cements Stax’s commitment to investing in its team and bringing on new team members with deep industry knowledge and is the latest executive hire at Stax. Stax Payments , Inc.,

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Payments Stax Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

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 intuition and heart can be built into a sales organization. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hiring Revenue CTO Coach CTO Hire 94

User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

He spearheads various initiatives to promote innovation and excellence in product management. Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore. Let’s face it: we aren’t great at managing transformations. Now, it’s time for AI. There’s more. How to prosper in the AI era.

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review CTO Coach 104

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Continuous risk management. Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team. In most SaaS companies, R&D is the organization that innovates the most, and therefore introduces the highest level of potentially risky change. . Shipping quickly and securely. Intercom is no exception.

Data 118

Data CTO Hire Technical Review Scale 118

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. How to overcome limited sales support. How to overcome limited sales support (06:15). ? Find innovators (10:36). ? I want to talk about each one and how I’ve seen myself and others overcome these challenges in their sales career.

Enterprise 82

Enterprise CTO Hire Startup Technical Cofounder 82

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.” And all of a sudden they’re like, “I guess, I could hire remote.”

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Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 225

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. Cross functional management was attempted but often not effective. In the early SaaS days, management structure was essentially the same. Chief Product Officer.

Part-Time CTO 69

Part-Time CTO CTO CTO Hire Management 69

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. But they are actually accompanying us in the sales cycle and it’s certainly something that’s accelerated our time-to-market but also our success as well.

Cloud 173

Cloud Scale Trends Artificial Intelligence 173

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Mistake 6) Mismanaging your people managers.

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Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

Scale 93

Scale Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Consulting 93

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. His best deals by cash are: Sales Loft : $2.5 He didn’t predict that Sales Loft, Pipe Drive, and Harry’s would be his top three cash returners. Is it sustainable? billion cash, $100 million ARR. billion cash.

CTO Hire 297

CTO Hire Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 297

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’re continuing to innovate. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Even after we did our pivot to the accounting automation and optimization, we still had desperate moments. year sales cycles. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? How do we sell to accountants?

Startup 290

Startup CTO Hire Sales Hiring CTO Coach 290

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

311: Karl Sun is the Founder & CEO @ Lucidchart, a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does Karl structure the hiring process today? What works?

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 241

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Known for his innovative writing style, Alex is credited for making Groove a successful company. He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. He is the managing director at Foundry Group, and his insights on technology startups are useful.

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VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. That’s all written on our platform.

Technical Advisors 232

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 232

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support.

Scale 214

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 214

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

And then the sale will commence as far as the people and this was, we were multiple millions of dollars of revenue until I took the first call. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise?

Scale 207

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 207

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. Topping the list of most-loved sales platforms, Apollo has a 4.8 and a New Era in Sales Tech Last week, we unveiled Operator , the first company incubated within GTMfund, alongside the announcement of a $3.6 The result?

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Scale Technical Cofounder New CTO 76

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I think the key thing that I had realized after several years in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, it really centers on the fact that a lot of the technology that I was seeing was really, a lot of the innovation was happening in the Bay area. And then helping being able to drive innovation across the company.

Technical Advisors 228

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 228

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls.

CTO Hire 173

CTO Hire compliance Scale Startup 173

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. Jen Nguyen: And we create this entire infrastructure to support this 1-to-1 seating model so that everyone under one location could be there at the same time. I need like sales, procurement, collaboration.

Sales Recruiting 213

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 213

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

How does Paul think about driving really effective change management? When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Is there hiring decisions? And it’s like, when you look at those trying to innovate in serving newly remotely teams.

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CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire Software Review 221

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member.

Scale 83

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 83

SaaStr

JANUARY 9, 2025

Every time I see a CRO that doesn't sell themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CTO that doesn't code themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CMO that doesn't market themselves, they fail. We’ve spend the most time on hiring a great first VP of Sales, but all the VPs are super important.

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale 312

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves.

Part-Time CTO 290

Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 290

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

VP of Engineering 159

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And that’s been your world and maybe a good place to start is, you know, pulling from your time at, at landing and, and we work. What did you wish more CROs, VPs of sales, your counterparts on the revenue side knew about how to communicate? You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO. Hey everyone.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Finance Underperforming Technical Team 89