C Level Executives

topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes

Startups For the Rest of Us Lenny's Podcast the Official SaaStr Podcast A Product Market Fit Show

4 statements about C Level Executives, every show

Abel: C-level executives ignore marketing and respond best to founders
“Most, most C-level executives don't respond to marketing. They might see your brand. They're not going to respond to a marketing campaign. Okay. It will respond one-on-one and the best individual to one-on-one to a corporate executive is the founder.”
Jen Abel Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 11:29 84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abel
Hughes: Targeting C-level executives for product feedback drives delegated sales deals
“If you can get in like at the highest level and work down the chain that's a good start to put.”
Mark Hughes Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 26:45 He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughe... · PMF Show
SAASTR Insight
Peters: Vendors overestimate C-level software buying authority
“People overestimate the decision-making power of a C-level executive. And here's why, because when we talk about decision-making for say marketing technologies in the organization, I, what I, the way I approach is I lay out the problem for my team... It's a ve…”
Vidya Peters Nov 3, 2021 ▶ 36:14 The 2021 State of Marketing Technology with Marqeta CMO, Vidya Peters | SaaStr Software Community
Walling: Startups should reach millions in ARR before hiring non-founder C-levels
“You should never hire a C-level person in the first, you know, in the first, you need to get to a lot of millions. I'll put in ARR before someone has a C in front of their title, unless they're a founder, in my opinion.”
Rob Walling Sep 7, 2021 ▶ 26:32 Episode 566 | From Bootstrapped to Venture Backed with Hana Mohan

← every entity, every show

Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, thousands of episodes across every show transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.