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SaaStr 081: Why It Is Wrong To Have A Sales Led Culture, Why There Should Be Tension Between Your Sales and Finance Orgs & Why Everyone Needs An Execu…
FromThe Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
SaaStr 081: Why It Is Wrong To Have A Sales Led Culture, Why There Should Be Tension Between Your Sales and Finance Orgs & Why Everyone Needs An Execu…
FromThe Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
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26 minutes
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Dec 9, 2016
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Podcast episode
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Steve Garrity is COO and founder of Hearsay Systems the leading advisor-client engagement solution for the financial services industry. Hearsay have backing from the likes of Sequoia, NEA, Kleiner Perkins Partner, Mike Abbott and Path Founder, Dave Morin. Before founding Hearsay, Steve worked as an engineer at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle is a graduate of Stanford University with a BS and MS in Computer Science. While at Stanford, he was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. During which, he joined Fortify Software as a product manager. Steve is also an investor in, and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-ups. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: How did Steve made his way into the world of SaaS from the world of Microsoft? How does Steve approach the management around his engineering team? How does Steve balance management of engineers while still allowing creativity? Are there dangers of giving engineers freedom? Is it possible to have both a happy engineering and sales? How does Steve look to harmonise the team? Is it not contra popular theory to have different cultures for different segments of the team? Why does Steve believe that executive coaching is an almost universal requirement? How does Steve justify that to the board? 60 Second SaaStr Steve’s Biggest Productivity tools? What does Steve now know that he wishes he had known at the start? The biggest mistake SaaS companies are enacting with their social media strategies? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Steve Garrity
Released:
Dec 9, 2016
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Podcast episode
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