Top of the lyne - Growing Zapier past $140M ARR
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Zapier’s first Sales hire 👊🏼Zapier's growth from $0-$140 million has been largely driven by their bottom-up self-serve engine. But in early 2021, with Steeve at the helm, Zapier started testing a Sales motion. Over the last year and a half, Steeve has incubated, hired, and built a sales-assist team from scratch. Catch our in-depth breakdown of Zapier’s growth story here 👇 In January 2022, CEO & Co-founder Wade Foster announced that they are officially hiring for Sales roles. We cover a lot of ground here with Steeve, including:
Shownotes 📝Steeve’s recommendations:🛠 Tool: Grain 📰 Newsletter: DTC branding by Nik Sharma Connect with him at :✉️ hi@steeve.co We help PLG companies (such as this one☝🏼) with their GTM experiments: be it monetization, activation, or retention. Start small, rapidly iterate and deploy at scale 🚀 Some housekeeping… Is your mailbox trying to keep our content away from you? 💔 What can you do about it? Mark this email as ‘not spam’ 😱 or move it from your promotions to the primary folder 👉🏻 It’s very easy! Thanks again, and please tell a few friends if you feel like it. If you liked this post from Top of the Lyne, why not share it? |
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