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The Early Days: How Deel Went From $1m to $100m ARR in Just 20 Months

SaaStr

👉 10 Things Deel Did to Get from $1M to $100M ARR in 20 Months Deel recently announced it had crossed $1 billion in ARR, joining the exclusive club of B2B companies that have reached true unicorn revenue status. The Discovery : During these conversations, they learned clients didn’t know about other Deel products.

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GTM 153: Building Technical Growth Machines & Signal-Based Selling with Austin Hughes

Sales Hacker

Sophie Buonassisi: Super [00:03:00] excited to have you been actually looking forward to this conversation for a while. You need to make sure that you’re not crossing your wires. Now, when I actually meet somebody in a conversation. Or they’re in a conversation with somebody else at that point.

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The “AI Slow Roll” is Killing Your SaaS, Why Existential Dread is Needed Today: The Latest 20VC with Rory, Harry + Jason

SaaStr

In a recent conversation between some of Silicon Valley’s most candid VCs, a fascinating picture emerged of an industry in transition—one where the old playbooks are breaking down and new realities are forcing uncomfortable reckonings. The conversation started with a provocative take from Chamath Palihapitiya: “TVPI is b t.

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GTM 149: Inside Meta’s $10B Sales Playbook with Rick Kelley

Sales Hacker

Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth. And I went to sell advertising solutions for them and I really enjoyed, you know, matching. So this is a conversation that I feel like I have once a week, if not more.

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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

SaaStr

months is reshaping how software gets built TL;DR: The New Dev Platform Reality In June 2025, Replit CEO Amjad Masad dropped a bombshell on X: his company had crossed $100M ARR, up from just $10M at the end of 2024. The company was caught in the classic freemium trap—massive user adoption but poor conversion to paid plans.

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Does Cold Calling Have a Place in the Future of Sales? Here's What One Sales Pro Sees Down the Line

Hubspot

By 2021, that number had risen to eight tries. Ask yourself, if someone called you eight or more times to sell you something, how receptive would you be to their message? Youll probably also use local presence numbers to boost pickup rates, and youll need software to cross-reference lists like the DNC registry to avoid lawsuits.

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What It Means When You Trash Your Competition

Iannarino

You best approach to differentiating yourself from your competition is enriching the sales conversation. His main goal, though, was to sell his solution, something his email made perfectly clear. Any conversation about your competition takes up time that would be better spent in a conversation that creates value for the client.