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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. How can you recognize that a VP is great, not just good? Get best price tickets here!!!

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

and Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO of MongoDB held a fireside chat at SaaStr Annual. Dev Ittycheria – President and CEO of MongoDB. I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. This was certainly one of them.

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Top 50 Customer Success Influencers 2022

SmartKarrot

This annual list has been compiled by the editorial team at SmartKarrot considering overall influence in the form of industry impact, community contributions, thought leadership, followership, and similar guiding criteria. While we have taken every care to ensure our selection is unbiased, we humbly admit that we do have blind spots.

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Top 50 Customer Success Influencers 2021

SmartKarrot

This list has been compiled by the editorial team at SmartKarrot taking into account overall influence in the form of original insights, industry contributions, community engagement, followership, and similar guiding metrics. If you find any prominent influencers missing, kindly nominate them in the comments below. Allison Pickens.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

It has little to do with the work itself, and more to do with the societal pressure, norms, and bias that exist in 2021. We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. The expectation is that we can “do it all.” Anything less is failure. For lack of better words…f*ck that. Heck, stand at the head of it.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. He was also the co-founder and president of a company called TrendKite. The key inflection moments along a journey of growth [14:25]. Figuring out customer centricity [18:55]. The acquisition process [21:55]. What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28].

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

There is a shift towards less capital-intensive startups with recurring revenues, and due diligence is crucial before taking on investors or advisors. The key to success is developing the product and having strong economics and a clear vision, especially during tough times.