Olivia Nottebohm

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Mar 30, 2022

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Nottebohm: Only 15% of SaaS companies sustain 60% growth past $100M ARR

“Only 15% of those companies who are growing at over 60% as they reach a hundred million ARR Are able to maintain that growth.”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 28:59 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022

Insight

Nottebohm: Great operations connect functions end-to-end to eliminate friction

“Ops is really about connecting end-to-end how functions work together. I mean that very respectfully, Respectfully. You can have amazing functions in a company, but if they're not working in lockstep with each other, you can have tremendous amount of friction,…”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 7:13 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022

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Nottebohm: Delay hiring rather than make compromised hires

“Do not make that higher out of deep necessity, and think that you're just going to solve it. It's actually better to go a little longer and wait for the right talent, even though it's hard to operate in that environment. But in the long run, it's the right dec…”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 24:13 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022

Insight

Nottebohm: Startup leaders must make defensible decisions rather than pleasing everyone

“When you make decisions, you always have to have a rationale that you can stand up in front of an entire company and explain. The reason I feel really strongly about that is no matter what decision you make, someone's going to be unhappy. So if you find yourse…”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 31:49 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022 negative

Insight

Nottebohm: Job interviews are highly likely to yield false positives

“I view interviews as Highly, highly likely to get a false positive. Less likely to get a false negative.”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 20:11 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022

Insight

Nottebohm: Offer slow-growing product lines for free instead of reviving them

“It's almost better to just cut off the branch and say, you know, that was a great entry. That gives us a great halo. We'll actually just offer that for free now, but we're not going to try to resuscitate this piece of the business back up to a 110% growth when…”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 9:39 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022

Insight

Nottebohm: Companies should not make building decisions solely to optimize revenue

“You never want to make decisions as you're Building to optimize for revenue. You really, really have to be careful not to do that. In fact, I would almost recommend that you take away things that pull you in the direction of something that would make you optim…”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 8:35 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022 negative

Insight

Nottebohm: Executive leaders must not directly own individual work streams

“At a certain point, you're never owning a piece of work yourself, because that then takes away from your ability to coordinate and look forward and think strategically.”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 12:55 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022

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Nottebohm: Positive reference checks lack credibility if they cannot name a weakness

“People know that all of the good things they said about the person aren't credible if they really can't note a weakness.”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 22:53 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

Mar 30, 2022 positive

Insight

Nottebohm: Executive span of control of eight direct reports is optimal

“I do believe in more of a flat structure, so a span of control of eight I feel is very comfortable, especially in my role where I'm really not trying to do the job of any one of the functional leaders on my team, right?”

Olivia Nottebohm Mar 30, 2022 ▶ 12:24 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?

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