Monday.com has expanded its sales organization to over 1,000 people
Eran Zinman · Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jan 17, 2025 · at 24:38
Eran Zinman is the co-founder and co-CEO of Monday.com. He discusses how the company expanded upmarket after initially avoiding hiring sales representatives.
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“We built an amazing sales team, you know, going forward to today where we have more than a thousand people in our sales team, but it was not obvious back in the days.”
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