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ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:11 Harry Stebbings And because I had Chris Dagnon on the show, who's like one of the all-time great CROs, Snowflake, you know, zero to four billion or whatever it was. 2 times in the scene
20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- ▶ 26:41 Chad Peets So like coming out of COVID, Chris Degnan, who you know is, is one of my dear, dear friends. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 Chad Peets But I can call guys like Dolly that have managed Europe, so even if I'm not calling a VP of EMEA, I will call guys like Dolly, Chris Degnan, John McMahon, a bunch of guys like that that I know and trust, and again, I bounce everything off…
- ▶ 45:51 Chad Peets When I, so when Shredo and Chris asked me to come back in, I got on stage August of last year, entire, I don't know, thousands of Snowflake employees, executive leadership was there, the entire sales organization was there.
20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
- ▶ 4:50 Harry Stebbings Do you know what, also, I spoke to Chris Dagnon and Mike Spicer before this show, and like, if you want, like, hard heavyweights who are incredible at what they do,
- ▶ 9:48 Chad Peets And so like when Chris and I, if you're going to go now, we're getting off target a little bit, but, but Chris and I took a sales organization and grew it faster than any sales organization has ever grown in history.
- ▶ 12:43 Chad Peets AppDynamics, MongoDB, Snowflake, where they have great sales leaders, and you say, oh, I went to work for Chris Degnan because I knew he was going to develop me.
- ▶ 14:31 Chad Peets And, and so if, if you, I don't want to put Keith, identify Keith, but if you ask somebody that's gone from ask Chris Degnan, you've gone from zero. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:06 Harry Stebbings It made me think of a conversation I had with Chris before when we spoke about CS, customer success. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:52 Chad Peets If I'm not on the front end or somebody like me, isn't on the front end to support Chris and be Chris's eyes and ears. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:30 Chad Peets And so Chris and I would set up calls frequently with all of his managers because the data was changing, which meant the pitch kept changing.
20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings And so when we look at the economics, when it's nine K, you know, I go back to Chris Dagnon, actually, who we both know, and he said that basically you can only have six to eight calls a week. 2 times in the scene
Carlos Delatorre, CRO @Harness: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation | E1251 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:09 Harry Stebbings My question to you is, you know, we had Chris Dagnon on the show from Snowflake. 4 times in the scene
Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:16 Harry Stebbings It was Dagnon. 3 times in the scene
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:43 Harry Stebbings Ok, so I'm gonna pit you against your mate Dagnan. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:47 Harry Stebbings Dude, Degnan says customer success, which means to the trash.
- ▶ 37:47 Harry Stebbings Yeah, Degnan said that actually. 3 times in the scene
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:03 Harry Stebbings We had Chris Degnan on from Snowflake, and he's like, just completely denigrated CS and said, that's why we don't have it, and it's bullshit, basically.
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings Also, I spoke to Chris Dagnon and Mike Spicer before this show.
- ▶ 6:36 Chad Peets And so like when Chris and I, if you're going to go now, we're getting off target a little bit, but, but Chris and I took a sales organization and grew it faster than any sales organization has ever grown in history.
- ▶ 7:15 Harry Stebbings My first question to you, I want to unpack the Chris and the snowflake skating, but you mentioned like the focus and knowing the customer so intimately well.
- ▶ 9:57 Chad Peets Chris Dagnan, because I knew he was going to develop me.
- ▶ 11:11 Chad Peets The generation from Blade Logic, which includes some home, like, right, I mean, Dan Fougere from Datadog, Adam Ahrens from Okta, right, I mean, look at all of the different app dynamics, Dolly Rogic, who's a close personal friend of mine,…
- ▶ 12:16 Chad Peets And so if, if you, I don't want to put Keith, identify Keith, but if you ask somebody that's gone from ask Chris Degnan, you've gone from zero. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:02 Harry Stebbings Uh, it made me think of a conversation I had with Chris before when we spoke about CS, customer success. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:33 Harry Stebbings We mentioned there about kind of Chris, Snowflake, they're not agreeing with CS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:26 Chad Peets If I'm not on the front end or somebody like me isn't on the front end to support Chris and be Chris's eyes and ears, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:42 Chad Peets Chris and I would set up calls frequently with all of his managers because the, the, the data was changing, which meant the pitch kept changing, right?
- ▶ 1:07:45 Harry Stebbings I knew when Degnan and Spicer said what they did, it would be a special one.
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:50 Mark Roberge And then I've asked a lot of people from Chris Degnan, one of our LPs or the founding CEO of Snowflake to like, you know, um, Kevin Egan, who I did a podcast who took like Salesforce and Dropbox and Atlassian and Slack upstream. 2 times in the scene
Larry Shurtz: How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Vertical Teams | E1151 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:23 Harry Stebbings So I had Chris Dagnon on the show, the CRS snowflake. 4 times in the scene
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:57 Harry Stebbings And the reason I say that is because as you, I mean, I sat Chris Degman on the show, who's the CRO at Snowflake and has been since day one. 2 times in the scene
Steve Goldberg: Core Questions All CFOs Ask Today When Buying | E1094 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:54 Harry Stebbings It's funny, I had Chris Dagnon on the show, his CR at Snowflake, recently, and I can't remember the number. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:07 Harry Stebbings Dude, you ever chatted to Chris Dagnan about CS? 3 times in the scene
20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales
- ▶ 31:13 Kyle Parrish You know, it's all about the future, and that's how I live, and I actually listened to your podcast with, uh, Chris from Snowflake, and I think he talked about that, and I think that's my mentality always has been.