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10 Things Startups Get Wrong Selling to Developers and Engineers (from the CRO Who Scaled Databricks from

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As CRO of Databricks, he’s built one of the most successful developer-focused sales organizations in the world. Hiring Non-Technical Sales Leaders for Technical Products The Mistake : Founders think great sales skills translate to any market. “They want salespeople who can add value on the technical front.

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10 Things That Are Different in Vertical SMB Sales with Toast’s CRO

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Toast’s CRO Jonathan Vassel shared fascinating insights on how vertical SMB sales is fundamentally different—and why those differences can become massive competitive advantages. Here are 10 key lessons from Toast’s remarkable journey scaling vertical SMB sales: 1. Toast just reported Q1 2025 results showing $1.7

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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

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His view is your sales team teaches your customers how to get value out of your product. Ron explains: “Wehire mostly technical backgrounds, but as our customers get larger and larger, you start to get global account managers, and they’re going to have much more business strategic account management experience.

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How We Scaled OpenAI’s Sales Team from 10 to 500 People in 2 Years: The Inside Playbook from ChatGPT Enterprise’s GTM Leader Maggie Hott

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Building Top-Performing Sales Orgs: Hard-Won Lessons from Scaling 4 Unicorns (Including OpenAI’s Hypergrowth from 10 to 500 People) Maggie Hott has spent 15 years building go-to-market teams at four unicorns that collectively represent over $500B in market value. These are her personal views, not those of OpenAI.

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Account-based selling in 2025: Everything to know

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Key Takeaways Executing 1:1 and 1:few account-based selling strategies geared toward high-value target accounts is how leading enterprise sales teams drive sustainable revenue growth. A modern account-based sales strategy isn’t just about targeting the right accounts.

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup

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The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Doug Camplejohn is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with extensive experience in B2B SaaS and go-to-market strategies. 06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around.

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The Journey from Freemium to PLG to SLG: Key Learnings from Dropbox, Salesforce and Vimeo

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The 5 Key Things You Need to Know About Modern Go-To-Market Adam Gross, former CEO of Vimeo and Heroku and and veteran of Salesforce and Dropbox joined SaaStr Annual for a deep dive on the evolution of SaaS go-to-market strategies. But here’s the real kicker: PLG isn’t just another sales motion.

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