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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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

SaaStr

I was the second employee at the time, the first one in a non-technical role. 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. Stages of growth.

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These 36 RevOps Leaders Have Something (Great) to Say

Sales Hacker

It’s not all technical. Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. But there's an urgent need for technical resources within growth teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Casey Winters Growth Advisor at Greylock.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.

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Whose Company Is It Anyway? Differences between Founders and Hired CEOs

OPEXEngine

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

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Moxie on Murder

Crafty CTO

” which is, at the moment, held by Hulu’s new Shōgun series. I refined the query a bit and finally got found a few some 2023 mentions of Moxie technical advising as well. Maybe Moxie’s advisory contract had run out by then, or maybe they had a mini-GOT-gotta-finish-this-somehow brain cramp.