SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
Lately I’ve been working with 5+ SaaS companies all hiring their first VP of Product. And critically, most have a really strong CEO-CTO partnership. A few general learnings: A VP of Product that Reports to CTO / Engineering Rarely Meets With That Many Customers. I just see this time and time again.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 25, 2023
For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. But only if you do it every week at the same time and never stop. Let’s jump right into the questions.
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Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 19, 2018
Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Even this year, one of the big vendors for us quit three weeks ago. A key vendor that we’ve relied on for years. More likely than not, but barely.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 21, 2022
We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition. We spent a lot of time and effort setting up that foundational system, making sure that our data was really good. We track everything and give credit for impressions, clicks, actual conversions, etc.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.
Sales Hacker
JUNE 12, 2020
If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. Or, if you do ask for a three year contract, have some terms in there that show that you’re going to prove ROI. Down the road, you can say, “ I demand a two year contract. You would approach it by hiring more people.
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