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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. Our best hires consistently came from our leadership team’s networks. What is Codeium and Windsurf?

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How to Build Go-to-Market Efficiency in SMB Sales with Owner.com CRO Kyle Norton

SaaStr

For Owner, they hired these two leaders on contract from their networks. There was a lot of trust, and they contracted them for 10-15 hours a week until the team was big enough and the ARR run rate was big enough to afford them without blowing up CAC. Find creative ways to solve this problem.

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Moving to Enterprise Sales {Part 2}: 5 Go-to-Market Prerequisites You Need to Succeed

Sales Hacker

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Until we can see a realistic path to contracting, it’s not.

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GTM 92: Unlocking $100M+ Deals, Winning in Enterprise and Chasing Customers Not Competitors with Eric Gilpin

Sales Hacker

Eric also serves as a limited partner at the GTMfund investor network as well as an advisory board member at Sales Assembly. 6:31 – Upwork’s challenge of the status quo in hiring contract talent. 34:33 – Aligning multiple go-to-market motions across market segments.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. What is LinkSquares?

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How to tune your GTM strategies to cope with budgetary headwinds

Martech

4 Defend marketing efficiency and effectiveness above budget In challenging times , CEOs and boards can look to scale back go-to-market efforts, leaving marketing in a defensive stance when it comes to budget. A note on the martech front 2023 marketing budgets grew at a 72% slower rate (from 10.4%

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Is the Head of Sales Job Going Extinct? The Rise of the CRO

Salesforce

They see how all departments can drive revenue for the company; those departments can include sales, marketing, customer success, and finance. The CRO leverages cross-functional knowledge to create a complete view of the customer lifecycle from bringing in new leads to closing deals to renewing customer contracts. Not exactly.

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