Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2020

. “While our physical offices are closed, Intercom’s products and services are fully operational and supported” On March 5th we also suspended all business travel and closed our offices to visitors including candidates, customers, work partners, family, and friends.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

Schultz explained: “So I always say, ‘Think about how many hours this search is going to take by the time you do the research, talk to candidates, do your outreach, interview candidates many times, do your back channel reference checks — all of that adds up.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Jason has sat in on interviews with 50-100 VPs of Sales, and many of them don’t even know what the product was in their 4th or 5th interview. You don’t want a VP of Sales who isn’t willing to travel, is too tired, wants to quit, or wants to be fractional with 11 clients. Sales is hard, and it can burn you out.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

In addition to our temporary work-from-home policies, we suspended business travel and visitors to our offices beginning on March 5. We are conducting interviews and onboarding new employees remotely.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

It became a part of our interview questions. What questions do you ask in the interview? It’s a team that’s only focused on a values type interview process. Every single candidate coming through Gusto does what we call a watermelon interview. I got it wrong many times myself. How do you get them to join?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re still learning what world we’re in — some people interview over Zoom, some are focused on how to build teams in the current age, and many are dealing with a weird overhang from the SaaS explosion of 2021, quiet quitting, layoffs, and team turnover. Not everyone wants to travel or fly to Vegas or NY to meet a customer.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Interviewing 157

Neil Patel

JUNE 1, 2021

To make event coverage more interesting, try contacting the organizers to find out who you can interview on location. Travel Videos. Travel videos are the darlings of people who like going on trips and meeting other cultures. Interview Videos. Consider making interviews a regular feature in your video channel.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 29, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices. As a seasoned content creator, Stew's approach to sourcing inspiration combines keen observation with curiosity and a desire to explore the less traveled paths.

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AI Social Media Technical Review Travel 127

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

If I am traveling, I usually take a flight between 6:00am–7:30am. As you can imagine my routine changes with travel. . I typically work remote one day a week and for the other 4 days (if not traveling) I arrive in the office at 8:15. . 10:00am–12:00pm : Interview new candidates. Thursday: Travel Day. Wednesday .

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Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In my 30 years of news reporting for ABC, CBS and CBC News I traveled to more than 40 countries, dodged bullets while reporting on wars, I interviewed prime ministers and presidents. I ran one of my interviews through it. Trint is a word I invented by merging the words “transcription” and “interview.” I was intrigued.

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Branding Advertising Underperforming Technical Team VP of Engineering 130

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Through the founders we have met, interviewed and had on stage, we have seen that many of the obstacles are common for everyone. If you are a founder traveling from abroad, SaaSociety provides one more way to experience the beautiful surroundings of São Paulo after SaaStock LatAm. Make friends. In dealing with them, you are not alone.

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Scale Scaling Entertainment Travel 155

User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

” This platform specialized in location-based queries , allowing travelers to seek advice directly from residents of a particular city. In his podcast, Lenny interviews leading product experts to extract actionable advice related to building and growing successful products. Lenny’s Podcast homepage.

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Interviewing CTO 102

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The founder was my age at the time, so we were in our early 20s and he ended up leaving to go travel and left me in charge, so it gave me a lot of leeway to really run the company how I wanted to. You can interview the company for it, but at some point it’s a little bit of a leap of faith. It was truly the time of my life.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 294

Buffer Resources

JUNE 2, 2023

Traveling is one of them. You're quite the traveler. When I was job hunting, one of my top priorities was finding a role that allowed me to maintain a balanced lifestyle, with travel being a significant component. So, I was actively seeking a job that would allow me to travel and work simultaneously.

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Travel Systems Review Growth Marketing Social Media 116

Trint

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At my interview, I was excited about the culture at Trint and couldn’t wait to advance my career at Trint. What concerns did you have before joining the tech industry: None. I was excited to work at a start-up and the plenty of new opportunities that I was going to face when I started.

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Software Engineering Engineering Interviewing Travel 130

SaaStr

JULY 4, 2019

He’s going to be able to go and say, “I was the very first person to ever travel to an international office.” Members of your executive team, your top performers, have got to travel to that international office. During the interview process when I first joined, there was a lot of concern about this Australian team.

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Sales Hiring Scale Engineering Sales Recruiting 217

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Even if I were to find one, how could an interview possibly screen for such depth of knowledge? Startups need teams who can change the tires on the bus as it’s traveling at 60 mph; they need a team of MacGyvers, who combine a little bit of knowledge, a wad of gum(ption) from their pocket and some raw smarts to solve a problem.

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Travel Interviewing Startup Engineering 100

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Adapting to remote work and eschewing business travel has forced a change – the events of the last year has already fundamentally changed how and where we do business. Norman: Spending millions every month on travel, most trips wasted actually, as it turns out. So that’s the problem. You can’t do that.

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Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

And without traveling, it’s much easier to talk to many investors in parallel. So he actually kind of enjoyed the process more than the normal process with a lot of meetings, travels, coffees, dinners. Just because of the special circumstances currently, it took us two weeks less than planned to get to a term sheet.

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Development Team Review Software Review Management Sales Hiring 185

Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Seeing people transcribing interviews, speeches and news conferences in the 21st century the same archaic way journalists did in the 1970s, he realized that artificial intelligence (A.I.) and speech-to-text could do the heavy lifting of transcription. Media inquiries: Michael Nelson-Wolter, Trint: michael@trint.com www.trint.com

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Investment Artificial Intelligence Banking Entertainment 130

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview. This is part of an ongoing series of interviews about unlocking the potential of growth. I would travel all over the world to launch Duolingo for Japan, China, India, Korea, Turkey, all these places that I’ve never even been to.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Interview with Little Otter CEO Rebecca Egger. You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below. ” My time at Palantir was amazing, but I was traveling a lot, a lot, a lot, and I really wanted to find some stability and work on one project for a longer set of time.

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Scale Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Technical Review 223

Chart Mogul

JUNE 6, 2019

The second bit is physical prepaid cards that you can hand out to employees, especially those who travel often or otherwise regularly spend money offline. As the name suggests, this is about business travel. While our employees do not travel that much, every now & then we do attend conferences or even host our own customer meetups.

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Payment Services Finance Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 20

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison about how Flippa works, as well as insights on what you should know if you’re a digital business owner looking to sell your business. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript.

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Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 119

Unbounce

AUGUST 6, 2021

Conduct Customer Interviews/Surveys. Customer interviews are usually viewed as a preliminary activity. Here are a few tips to help your next interview be short and deliberate as opposed to long and aimless. It’s tempting to create surveys and interview questions centered on a product feature you think will be helpful.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review AI Search Interviewing Software Review 144

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Outside sales often involves a large amount of travel, autonomy, and emotional intelligence. Obviously, on the surface they can look very different — one being an office job and the other involving a lot of travel and in-person meetings. Questions to Ask in an Interview. Instead, they meet with prospects outside the office.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

through surveys, interviews, and other Voice of Customer research. For example, a travel agency might send targeted ads featuring vacation packages to potential customers browsing travel blogs (Awareness stage). A good place to start is by creating user personas.

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Strategy Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Travel 111

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve been in the company for a long time and because I’ve had an opportunity to do a lot of traveling and be around a lot of people, I get asked the question a lot, “What’s the thing you’re most proud of at EventBrite?” The advantages of what we have, they’re numerous.

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Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 184

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Plus, an interview on Product Hunt Radio from the mind of a brand master. The modern business model is at it again, permeating another sector of travel as Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways launches subscription flight. And this is really a win-win, for both traveler and company. Today, we’re eyeing subscription aviation.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A lot of times when we’re talking about new technology or we’re talking about new business, it’s like, “Okay, what are people going to hire once your product is there, and let’s go interview why people hired that product because that’s the place in which it starts.” What is your competition doing?

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Sales Hiring Sales VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 265

Neil Patel

MARCH 24, 2021

Hence, talented marketers who want to explore the world can do their job and travel simultaneously. While you sleep, they can work, and it’s almost like your project traveled through time to meet your deadline. As long as you work during your expected hours, where you’re working from generally doesn’t matter.

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Transportation Travel Systems Review Software Review 143

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I started traveling, meeting clients, traveling to go to conferences, and since then I’ve been focused on selling and closing revenue targets, leading sales people. These are the things I look for in candidates when I am interviewing them. Sam Jacobs : You were one of the founding members of LaunchDarkly.

Scale 107

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Outsourced Development 107

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

You can collect feedback from your customer base via in-app surveys, feedback widgets, interviews, and by monitoring social media mentions and reviews. Interview existing customers Another good way to identify emerging market gaps is by interviewing your customers. Spotting market gaps: interview invite.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

But it was super interesting that the two big interviews I did were with Ben Chestnut from Mailchimp yesterday and with Dharmesh and Brian from Hubspot. And in January of 2020, the CDC put out an email that said COVID might be an issue for travel. We know what top tier NRR is and CAC and all of these things. And I wish I had it.

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Outsourcing Services Banking CTO Hire New CTO 243

Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s a great interview. Rocketrip is actually a rewards platform incenting travelers to spend less on travel. Essentially, what we do is we present each traveler with a price to beat. Another fantastic interview, Kathleen Roberge, what a track record. We’d like to thank our sponsors. Sam Jacobs: ?So

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Sales Hiring Scale Management Sales 84

Sales Hacker

MARCH 23, 2020

So whether you’re experiencing a travel ban or simply don’t have the time or budget to travel, you can still build your skills and make new connections. No need to ask for time off or wrangle travel budgets! Here are the top virtual sales conferences, events, and training you need to know about. Just come and enjoy.

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Sales Artificial Intelligence Travel B2B 89

User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

These concepts differ based on the following criteria: Data collection : Use surveys , focus groups, and interviews to collect psychographic data. Data collection methods To gather psychographic information, conduct: User surveys and interviews. This includes spending habits and usage and activity patterns. Focus groups.

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Software Review Interviewing Retention Travel 103