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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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So they come out and they say “It’s sort of manifest destiny that somebody that my magical dream candidate that scaled company X, Y or Z from zero to 50 or zero to 100 is going to come off the beach and stop whatever they’re doing, which is probably not much except golf and jump back in and take a risk to build your company.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

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It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. Harry Stebbings: Can I dive in and ask, in terms of kind of the connection of that strategy, how do you create that connection cross-functionally across the company? John Mellor: I got into SaaS before I knew I was getting into SaaS.