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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

But as it started selling more and more into the enterprise, it staffed up with a deep and strong one. But when it came to selling Dropbox Enterprise, it added several. Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in. Using data to drive outbound sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

Joanna founded and ran the Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016 where she noticed there was a need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible. Going global was difficult for Prowly, but after a year and a half, they found that their differentiating factor was catering to SMBs rather than enterprises.

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

At Slack, she rose through the ranks from an Account Executive to a Senior Enterprise Leader, and by the time she left Slack six years later, their revenue had grown from about $12 million in ARR to more than a billion dollars. By the time that I actually left Slack, I was senior manager of enterprise. Is it true enterprise?

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Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success

Intercom, Inc.

In 2016, she created Chili Piper with her husband Nicolas and poured in everything she had learned over the years. I’ve learned how enterprises work, how they make decisions and purchases, how each job has its role in a corporation, and how everybody operates. Alina was a builder, not a politician. But I’ve learned a lot.

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How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team

Gainsight

At Pulse 2016, SaaStr’s Customer Success for Start-ups track was one of the most popular series of sessions in the entire conference. Are you selling more to enterprises? You have to have an understanding of how much of your business is enterprise versus SMB. A million things going on outbound-driven, rapidly changing.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.