Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

Well, what I wanted to dive into, because it’s a personal passion of mine, I’ve been in kind of a partnerships function for a while, at least while I was an operator at Outreach. You know, okay, are we aligned that this new line of product is going to be able to bring this amount of revenue? Fred Viet: That’s good.

GTM 117

GTM Sell Customers Cold Call 117

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

Ray breaks down why the rise of AI agents is a tectonic shift, how businesses are already seeing ROI, and what it means for SaaS, team structure, and go-to-market strategies. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

GTM 69

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 69

Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Jessica Gilmartin has nearly 20 years of go-to-market leadership experience, most recently serving as both the Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Calendly. Your go to market motion has to be driven by the product.

GTM 76

GTM X-functional Start-ups Campaign 76

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Finding product market fit Moving from SMB to Enterprise or vice versa Achieving Enterprise repeatability Strategic expansion Borland has experienced all four stages at three different companies and knows what teams and functions look like for each stage of growth. Why is teaming the new selling? The journey covers three stages.

B2B 116

B2B GTM Objectives and Key Results Sell 116

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Competitor X is doing Y. We should do that, too,” or “X is the market leader, and they have Y, so we need Y.” Run a functional investigation. Run a functional investigation. is probably random.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. And then once you set it up, align the whole go to market around it. This is go to market fit. You have go to market fit.

Growth 106

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 106

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

I’m not a lawyer, I’m actually an engineer by classical training, and it’s been a fun and interesting ride to work with this community. Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality. So we’re excited, we stumbled into this journey.

Contract 119

Contract X-functional Objectives and Key Results Legal 119

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The licensee embeds the third-party software into its application to improve it by adding new functionality or features, or enhancing existing functionality or features. Depending on the software, implementation, and go-to-market (GTM) strategy, considerable costs and internal resources could be needed for a successful deployment.

GTM 88

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 88

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

If engineers are doing days or weeks or even sometimes months of work to install something, it’s incredibly unlikely that they’re going to quickly rip it out and change it. That allows us to have a very different go to market strategy. As such, we do a lot of things very differently. We just built a product.”

Finance 85

Finance X-functional Non-Profits Launch 85

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

You may say, “I’m not a right fit for you because of X, Y, and Z,” but you still made an impression and made it clear who you are best for and that person knows other people that work for or lead companies or lead functions that could need you. . I’m a big believer in cross-functional alignment.

Pipeline 97

Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 97

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you missed episode 68, check it out here: PODCAST 68: How to Go to Market with an Enterprise Solution w/ Ed Calnan. Sam Jacobs: You said that sales and account management are the best functions from which to start a career. What You’ll Learn. What Managed by Q does. Building a Customer Success Strategy. Megan Bowen: Hi, Sam.

Customers 65

Customers Account management X-functional Hospitality 65

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

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. Which is why this pioneering guide shows you how to build a fully streamlined sales engine that uses modern techniques and technologies. Jeffrey Gitomer. Mark Hunter.

Sales 143

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Let’s talk about the progression of this, cause I think a lot of times like a company will start not with a product, but observing a problem in an audience that is big enough that they think there’s a market. What if it had X? The product led growth, sorry, PLG product led growth functions businesses’ strategies.

Pipeline 122

Pipeline Sales Growth X-functional 122

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Law number three, this is huge, particularly in COVID, so we’re going to talk about this a little bit differently. Everyone is trying to figure out the go-to-market learning curve. Transcript of Episode 374: Henry Schuck: Every company big and small is realizing that high quality data is a necessity to go to market.

Non-Profits 92

Non-Profits Strategize Trust Growth 92

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

And the way you get it is whether it’s outbound, generally inbound events or whatever, solve a 10 X pain point, solve a unique pain point that a large enterprise has that other vendors don’t provide. Yes, there is the classic situation where a big company wants to give you a lot of money, but overwhelm your engineering resources.

Growth 117

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 117

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

And what I learned from that experience was that I was more interested in working with the companies themselves than working on the financial engineering of those companies. So I went back to business school and took a hard left turn and decided I was going to throw myself into sales as a way to help grow companies.

Finance 104

Finance X-functional Pipeline Territory 104

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’ll tell you, of all the founders I’m impressed with, I’m most impressed with founders that I meet and I’m like, “How you doing”, “Well, I’m at 2 million in revenue and I’m going to grow 2.5 X this year. I’m going to go from 2 to 5 or 2 to 6.”

Quota 98

Quota Growth Product Closing 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Tripod was a search engine there, which exited to AltaVista. Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. And that’s distinct from the X in the cloud pattern that was the first generation.

E-commerce 117

E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 117

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

For more than two decades, she has been instrumental in promoting sales development and inside sales as a community and engine for revenue growth. In this podcast episode , she talks about her career graph from being an environmental engineering grad to being the VP of sales at a public company like Zendesk.

Cold Call 14

Cold Call Inside sales Sales B2B 14

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution.

X-functional 62

X-functional Drivers/motivators Start-ups Engineering 62

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * Bob Moore: And I was t nerdy engineer in college, so getting the opportunity to have to pitch, it’s really a sales job at the end of the day. How important is it to own the entire customer journey?

X-functional 64

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 64

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. Let’s say the customer is going to the next stage and they want additional help, let’s say in [inaudible] of security. Rather than trying to think about expansion.

Price 64

Price GTM Up-sell Product 64

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

And then in the enterprise, some of them tie them to multi-year deals, but there’s actually no impact on conversion rate from the free trial to a paid customer as a function of the contract value. And then the second, he was going to market trying to change pricing. Tom Tunguz: That’s really important.

Contract 67

Contract Price Commission Conversion 67

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

And then in the enterprise, some of them tie them to multi-year deals, but there’s actually no impact on conversion rate from the free trial to a paid customer as a function of the contract value. And then the second, he was going to market trying to change pricing. Tom Tunguz: That’s really important.

Contract 12

Contract Price Commission Conversion 12

SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A Merger of Two Personas — Software Engineer and ML Engineers Ten years ago, your data stack involved systems that produced data. Now, those ML engineers are becoming part of the core workflow. LLMs Change How Companies Go to Market Massive changes are happening on the tech side of an organization.

GTM 123

GTM SQL X-functional Engineering 123

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Guest Speaker (Cassie Young): LinkedIn Primary VC Host (Scott Barker): LinkedIn Newsletter Find GTMnow (GTMfund’s Media Brand): Website LinkedIn Twitter/X YouTube Podcast Sponsor: Pursuit The best talent isn’t actively job hunting. Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis.

GTM 81

GTM Growth X-functional Referrals 81

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

To claim this offer, go to www.superhuman.com/gtmnow The GTM Podcast The GTM Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Scott Barker, GTMfund Partner, featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. And you could say they’re still going through hyper growth, um, but really excited to, to dive into your journey.

GTM 102

GTM X-functional Price Pipeline 102

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rob Giglio is the Chief Customer Officer at Canva, where he oversees Canvas sales and go-to-market functions. Rob brings to Canva over 20 years of industry experience leading and executing global marketing and sales initiatives.

GTM 105

GTM Gambling B2B E-commerce 105

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Joe DiMento is the Head of Go-To-Market & Industry Partnerships at Bain Capital Ventures. Previously, he was an operating partner at Fractal Software, helping launch vertical software companies and find product-market fit.

GTM 97

GTM Quota Drivers/motivators Sales 97

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

We have feature X that they don’t.”. You need to match it and go far beyond to avoid the sameness trap, or have a completely different take on it. Your competitor has feature X, you need feature X. Often, they go for the obvious—stuff like “easy-to-use” email marketing. WP Engine used speed.

A/B testing 162

A/B testing X-functional Price Gaming 162

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more.

GTM 63

GTM Up-sell Start-ups Growth 63

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

More specifically, you want to identify the single gear of your growth engine that’s really slow or stalled where you bring to bear overwhelming force. So if you haven’t experimented with an ROI calculator in your go-to-market motion, I’d highly encourage it. So that’s one example of many.

E-commerce 117

E-commerce Price Start-ups Gaming 117

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

18:13 The role of cross-functional communication. 18:13 The role of cross-functional communication. To claim this offer, go to www.superhuman.com/gtmnow The GTM Podcast The GTM Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Scott Barker, GTMfund Partner, featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders.

GTM 87

GTM Finance Cross-sell X-functional 87