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Building a Sales Organization from 0 to 100 Sales Reps with Flock Safety’s CEO and VP Growth

SaaStr

Flock Safety’s Founder and CEO, Garrett Langley, and its VP of Growth, Alex Latraverse, know a bit about sales. Enough to go from 0 to 100 sales reps in about 18 months — and they’re looking to be well beyond 100 by the end of this month. Hiring a VP of Sales. 1 – Have a recruiting strategy.

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The Different Flavors of Risk Early Stage VCs Take

SaaStr

I’m 100% OK taking a lot of risk here because I know I can help them recruit a local team as much as necessary or desired. Network effects in your product, a marketplace element, or at least some tech/product/non-sales driven reason your app automatically gets more and more dominant as it scales. It just varies.

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The Three Strategic Questions Facing AI Agencies

Tom Tunguz

Since writing The AI Agency: A Novel GTM for Machine Learning Startups , I’ve been meeting many companies who operate this way. These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long.

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A Look Back: Everything Breaks When You Go Into Hypergrowth Mode, with UiPath’s CMO (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing. We actually think it’s about where the customers are when it comes to our sales and customer success and then where our product development center should be. We do have a network of recruiters.

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What’s New at Greenhouse: $200M ARR, AI in the Real World, Going Big with PE, and More

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. But on sales calls, the buyer would say the product looked amazing — and that they needed an ATS before buying Greenhouse.

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With Smart Software, Sell Ironman Not Robocop

Tom Tunguz

When buying machine learning enabled software, it’s easier to sell like Ironman than Robocop; a product that complements and augments the user’s skills rather than a true replacement. These are some of the objections customers raise during those sales pitches. And machine learning is becoming another.

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Sales Engagement: The Intersection of Sales and Science

Sales Hacker

What if sales reps can really harness the full potential of the pricy software tools we thought would turn us into sales superstars? Goodbye missed quotas; hello sales engagement!). When science and sales meet, sparks fly. RELATED: What is Sales Engagement? Sales Engagement: A Billion Dollar Market.

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