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SaaStr 518: Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Building Marketing Channels Slowly to Achieve Massive Scale with Datadog's CMO Alex Rosemblat

The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

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The Flashing Light for Scaling of Team

At certain inflection points, i think that this is for somebody that is getting to new levels of scale that they haven't worked on for that particular channel before. And when you take it apart, you're going to potentially need new systems, new kinds of employees and a new play book. I have found that tenth hire on a team is two or three hires away from getting to an inflection point where there's too many people,. coordinating, communicating becomes really difficult. Even though you've added way more people, the team is actually producing less because they haven't been built for scale. With so many distractions, with so many things that marketing is being asked to do, if you don

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