Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. It’s okay if you are ‘terrible’ at it.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. What’s not to like?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. Only then will you have the foundation to consistently win new customers, upsell existing ones and see the kind of predictable growth that’ll be the making of your company. LB Harvey, VP of Sales, Intercom.

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