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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

SaaStr

5 Key Learnings from Scaling from 3 to 75 Go-To-Market Team Members in Less Than 12 Months The latest SaaStr CRO Confidential is out and Sam Blond did a great deep dive with Graham Mareno, VP of Worldwide Sales at Codeium. Their product is generating an impressive 45% of developers’ code on average.

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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

SaaStr

Rather than seeing this as a liability, Wiz leveraged it as a strategic advantage — even in its sales team. Colin observed that “everyone’s calendar was full of customer calls,” providing an immediate, tangible signal of product-market fit.

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How SMB Digital Brands Can Win the Best Talent

FastSpring

Larger technology companies can pay more, offer more benefits, and provide a more marketable brand on a candidate’s resume. and content as well to punch above your weight when recruiting and insights on why the best candidates even say yes to working for smaller brands. Insights on why the best candidates say YES!

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

SaaStr

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Obviously little later stage market is much more well known. So that’s easy.

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Using Sales Conversations to Find Product-Market Fit

Sales Hacker

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve spent the last year working to find product-market fit for my startup, Dock. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way.

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10 Learnings on High-Velocity Sales to SMB with Gorgias CEO and VP of Sales

SaaStr

How do you win with a high-velocity sales strategy in a fast-moving, competitive market? In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process.

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When you start a tech company, you give equity to your employees. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps. This thing in the product, or how we do culture. How do you hire?”