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Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31; Plus Weekly SaaS News and Updates

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Hey SaaStr Community,


With less than two weeks left to go until SaaStr Scale 2021, we’re looking at an incredible speaker line-up this year. Team SaaStr wants to make sure you know about all the great content that’s on tap so here are just a few to add to your list.


Tickets to Scale are free, so be sure to sign up to join us live on December 15th!


SaaStr Scale is dedicated to bringing you the playbooks for scaling to $100M and beyond. Here's a look at some of our most popular sessions and speakers by pre-sign-ups:

  • Product-led Growth: How to Execute Across the Full Funnel (and Mistakes We Made) with Reprise's VP of Marketing and VP of Sales
  • How to Increase Revenue and Grow Your Customer Base by 10x Through the Power of Self-Serve and Direct Sales with Asana's COO and Figma's CCO
  • The Keys to Turning Sales and Marketing Strategy into Successful Execution with Highspot's VP of Revenue Strategy & Account Development
  • Acquiring SMB 10,000 Customers Solely from Data with Gorgias' CEO
  • How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From Co-creating Product with Community with Gitlab's CEO
 
 
 
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Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home.
 

The best sales teams just close so much on the last day of the year (be it Dec 31 for many of you, Jan 31 for others). When there really is no need to buy then … at all. Not really.
 
 
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This edition of the SaaStr weekly is sponsored in part by Planful
 
 

What should be growing faster — your sales team or your customer success team? The answer can vary, but if you’re well enough funded, it may well make sense to grow the success team even faster than sales.
 
 
 

With 500+ episodes and almost 5 years behind us, we thought this would be a fun time to share the Top 25 episodes of all time. A lot has changed since Harry Stebbings launched podcast #001 2016 with Tiago Paiva, CEO of now decacorn Talkdesk, but SaaStr is still on the same mission. We’re bringing you the best advice from industry leaders, and we don’t plan on stopping.

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Entrepreneurship takes grit and determination, and leading a successful company can feel like a Herculean effort. But even the most impressive leaders are human and need support and mentorship as much as anyone else. Harley Finkelstein, President at Shopify shares his founder experience and advice.
 
 
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Harry Stebbings, Founder of 20VC and 20VC Fund, and, Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder discuss the state of investing and how to build a successful SaaS sales team from the ground up.

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When Slack rocketed to $100m faster than any SaaS company we’d seen, it seemed like an outlier, an anomaly

Now we see Snowflake growing 110% at $1B, Datadog 70% at $1B, Okta 60% at $1B

Now we see Slack wasn’t an outlier

It was just early
 
 
 
 

Look, you will probably never build a Sequoia

But it’s amazing to me in venture in 4-5 years you can build a fund into a strong enough brand that the very best founders will actually pick you

Top funds like Craft, Felicis, Initialized, etc. were literally willed into existence
 
 
 
 

There is a mini-SaaS Crash every 12-18 months

This might even be to be expected

But, the epic growth of the Cloud just can't be stopped
 
 
 
 

You can scale infinitely as a CEO or VP

if you are relentless in recruiting people truly better than you to work for you
 
 
 
 
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