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GTM 126: Reverse Engineering the Founder Journey: From Scaling Twitter Ads to $650M, 20 Years Operating, and a Webflow Acquisition | Guy Yalif

Sales Hacker

Guest Speaker Links (Guy Yalif): LinkedIn: [link] Host Speaker Links (Scott Barker): LinkedIn: [link] Newsletter: thegtmnewsletter.substack.com/ Where to find GTMnow (GTMfunds media brand): Website: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Twitter/X: [link] YouTube: [link] The GTM Podcast (on all major directories): [link] Resource we Recommend: HG Insights.

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Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs and Lightspeed

SaaStr

Grafana Labs chose remote first from the beginning because the three founders were located in New York, Sweden, and Australia. The pitch was, “We have all these amazing companies using our software. You can get wowed by someone saying they have this playbook that worked at x company and that they can apply it to yours.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I think whether it’s doing portfolio triage or learning to take pitches over Zoom or whatever people are doing, it’s hard as human beings. Jason Lemkin: So, traditionally in normal and good times, there is a sort of very slow-paced pressure as a VC, which is to do X deals a year. The rate of change, right? So I get it.

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Matching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. I was on the product team and saw this opportunity for us to work more cross functionally across the company and focus heavily on retention and monetization. If you value speed, you might up in for an Uber X.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

Pitching and Closing. Pitch Anything. It uses the formula PPVVC=S (Pain x Power x Vision x Value x Control = Sale) to help salespeople accurately gauge the probability of closing a deal. It’s all practical advice — no cutesy stories, no rants, and no product pitches. Pitching and Closing.

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A Look Back: Talkdesk, Greenhouse, Algolia and Gainsight Coming Up On $10m ARR

SaaStr

Daniel, you’re in New York, which I think is still part of America, of our other side of the country, but quite different. How do you think about the Bay Area over there in New York? Now being in New York, I’ve built a big business previously to Greenhouse in New York. Thrive, etc.

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Google Ads turns 23: A look back at the biggest changes and advances in search

Search Engine Land

. “Demand Gen campaigns combine image + video ads in one place and can be used to drive conversions, site visits and actions like sign-up and add-to-cart across YouTube, Discover and Gmail,” Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin explained in a thread on X. 2008 Google pitched its media buying dashboard to very skeptical agencies.