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

SaaStr

The company already had impressive product-market fit, with the founders having sold several million dollars worth of product before hiring dedicated sales staff. ” Insufficient focus on post-sale experience “We were so focused on customer acquisition that we didn’t build out our post-sale function quickly enough.

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AI and the Bottom Line with Canva’s CCO: How They Built a $7B Enterprise Motion on 16 Billion AI Interactions

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Post-Sale Orchestration Should Match Pre-Sale Excellence SaaS companies excel at customer acquisition funnels but often neglect post-sale orchestration. Red Flags: The Cultural Challenge The transition wasn’t without risks: No Enterprise Sales Experience : The team had never built a sales-led motion before.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lead List

Hubspot

I generated many of my own sales leads through cold-calling and networking. These days, sales reps can access a wealth of prospecting tools to enrich their lead lists, like LinkedIn Sales Navigator , ChatSpot , Uplead , and PartnerTap. Tip #1: Define your ICP and your personas.

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LinkedIn Sales Mastery: How B2B Teams Close More Deals with Social Selling

RingDNA

If you’re not active on LinkedIn, you’re missing out on one of the most powerful tools for driving brand awareness, building credibility, and expanding your network. “75% Reach out to your first-degree network and make sure that they know what you do. It’s where thought leadership happens. Source: Gartner ​.

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The best AI agents for sales on the market — here’s what I tested and expert takes

Hubspot

While it’s often categorized as a VoIP phone system, what sets it apart is how deeply AI is woven into the sales experience. It’s designed for sales and support teams that want real-time transcription, live coaching, and automated follow-ups — all during or immediately after a call. Limits video meetings to 10 participants.

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Timeless growth principles that scaled $20M to $450M

Sales Hacker

He studied what Carta specifically needed fixing broken lead routing, segmenting sellers by skill, and rethinking post-sale experience. Make onboarding a growth weapon Your GTM is only as good as your post-sale experience. Jeff didnt try to copy Oracle or DocuSign playbooks at Carta. Diagnose, then design the solution.

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GTM 134: When to Hire Your First Sales Reps (And How to Get It Right) with Joe DiMento

Sales Hacker

And, you know, really that role and it’s such a cool role you have is it’s all about, you know, working with founders to help them unlock go-to-market growth and access, you know, executive networks within the Bain network, which is very much like what we do at GTM fund. So I was a consultant before I started as an AE.

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