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SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank (Pod 617 + Video)

SaaStr

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, joined Matt Plank, VP of Sales at Rippling, to unlock the secrets to exponential revenue growth. Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace .

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5 Interesting Learnings from Atlassian at Almost $3 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Not having a traditional sales team sure helps. Headcount up 7%, while revenue is up 37%. But that only increases total headcount 7% which revenues went up 37%. Not trying to over-monetize their $2B Marketplace — revenues flat there. Channel partner sales growing 130%. Generating incredible free cash-flow.

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What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One

SaaStr

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

Powered by a modern business messenger , it scales your ability to answer more questions from more customers without increasing headcount, budget, or hours logged. so here are five top conversational support tools as reported by the world’s largest and most trusted marketplace, G2: Intercom. Obviously we’re a little biased ??

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. There was not a lot of outbound sales or marketing.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel. Kaitlin: You’re the General Manager HubSpot’s Service Hub. Customer service as a model for growth.

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