SaaStr 622: CRO Confidential: What's Changed for Hiring a VP of Sales in 2023 with Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and Stage 2 Capital LP and Former Lattice CRO Dini Mehta
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
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Is There a Barrier to Entry in Sales?
I wasn't someone who knew early on that I wanted to be in sales or even tech. My first few jobs were generalists go to market roles so I got to do a lot of roles except for sales. And at some point it shifted for me where I realized I enjoyed helping others in my team close deals. That's when I knew it was time for me to try management and so got his first shot at frontline management at Quantcast. Then I wanted to see if I could build a go to market engine from scratch like if I had a blank slate. So that's what took me to lattice. You've now seen the journey from very early days of 100 million revenue twice
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