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

SaaStr

Let’s find out from Sam Altman, President at YCombinator and CEOs, Tracy Young, Josh Reeves, and Spencer Skates. As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Get tickets here. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT.

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Advertising Week 360: How to Tell the Perfect Startup Brand Story

Trint

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’d never been exposed to software developers and the mysterious world of coding. I remember saying to the team, “We just invented the future.”

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PODCAST 138: From Marketer to CEO: The Power of Brand as a Growth Amplifier with Jake Sorofman

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. After a career as a VP of Marketing and CMO, Jake now serves as president of MetaCX. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

SaaStr

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. SaaStr is Turning 10! That’s my background. More power to you.

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Scaling Faster, Part 2: An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 583)

SaaStr

But I’m trying to figure out how much capital allocation should we do between continuing that strategy. And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week With Rippling and Salesforce — May 31, 2019

SaaStr

Why should engineers also be doing customer support? * Why should your engineers be heavily involved in the customer support hiring process? How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? What are the benefits of this? What do you look for in those hires?

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Sneak Peek: See The 26 Sales Hacker Contributors That Will Be at Unleash ‘19

Sales Hacker

Lauren Bailey – Founder and President of Factor 8. Lauren Bailey’s award-winning sales firm Factor 8 has been instrumental in helping sales teams with their sales and management development programs. Trish Bertuzzi is the founder of The Bridge Group that helps B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams.