SaaStr
MARCH 3, 2020
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%.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
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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Sales Hacker
MAY 5, 2021
It’s not all technical. As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. He is also a board member for the New Technical Fund whose mission is to fund organizations that enrich people with skills using new technical methods. Check it out.
Hull
JANUARY 22, 2019
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. Brianne Kimmel made the move from marketing through growth to advising and investing.
Crafty CTO
MARCH 11, 2024
Moxie’s a legend in tech as creator of the Signal secure messaging app —and more importantly to cryptographers, the Signal Protocol and Double Ratchet Algorithm —and when I saw his name I immediately was looking for “technical advisor” credits. But no, this was actually CO-STARRING.
OPEXEngine
JUNE 16, 2020
The best VC investors view their relationship with the founder as a partnership: it’s the founder’s company, we are investing to partner with the founder, and our primary job is to advise and support the founder so as to help maximize the outcome. Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. However, some do [5].
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 15, 2018
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. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Balancing internal growth with hiring.
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