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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

Using data to drive outbound sales. This meant that when Jeanne wanted to get an outbound sales program off the ground, she had to get creative. Rather than hire a dozen reps to focus exclusively on outbound, she used data science to supercharge the workflow of her existing team. “We

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

Next, determine the variable comp based on your answers to the following questions: How complex is your sales cycle? Is your model primarily inbound or outbound? Is the focus of the role primarily hunting (outbound), farming (growing existing business) or catching (inbound)? Tonni Bennett, VP of Sales, Terminus.