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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

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In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. She can be your CTO forever.

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5 Nonobvious Learnings from Atlassian’s Path to The First $10B in ARR With Ex-CRO Cameron Deatsch

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The “Anti-EnterpriseEnterprise Model Most surprising insight: Atlassian’s growth challenges conventional enterprise wisdom. While competitors invested in huge sales teams, Atlassian actually restricted direct customer interaction.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

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Prior to Workplace, Christine was Head of America’s for Facebook’s Audience Network and before that spent 5 years as a Group Director across multiple different sales and account teams within Facebook’s mid-market channel. In terms of metrics, how do you determine success and product market fit itself within an organization?

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