Sales Org

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IN DEPTH Insight
Moreno: Unstandardized sales reps make enterprise revenue forecasting impossible at scale
“I think if you have a bunch of people that are all really good at problem solving, but all do it in silos or do it in different ways, then when you go to create predictability in the business, there's not actually really a baseline to be forecasting off of bec…”
Graham Moreno May 21, 2026 ▶ 23:41 Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
20VC Insight
Chad Peet: Leaving at 2:30 PM daily won't work in sales unless reps return
“If you tell me five days a week you gotta leave the office at two 30 to pick your kid up from school, that is not gonna work. Unless you're gonna go pick your kid up from two 30, bring him home and come back to the office, say, alright, I can live with that.”
Chad Peets Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 43:03 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
IN DEPTH Insight
Founders cannot effectively scale a sales organization without first selling themselves
“There's no way you'll be able to Manage and make that sales org work if you don't learn how to sell yourself.”
Jyoti Bansal Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 29:53 How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
SAASTR Disclosure
Jackson: Cursor Sales Team Builds Internal Tools Using Cursor
“Many people in our sales org are also building tools to help the sales org using cursor.”
Jacob Jackson Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 15:53 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI
SAASTR Disclosure
Herzberg: Wiz moved its field marketing organization to report to sales
“Today, in Wiz, the marketing team is actually structured untraditionally. So, like, about a year ago, I actually split the marketing org so that the field marketing org is under the sales org. Because to me, it's so attached to regional and to sales, and it's …”
Raaz Herzberg Jul 16, 2025 ▶ 12:57 Marketing in the Age of AI with Wiz's CMO Raaz Herzberg
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Singer: Basecamp had no sales or marketing orgs competing for engineering time
“Imagine you have no sales org. You have no marketing. That all of sales, sales, selling and marketing is happening by the unicorn founders. So it means that there isn't contention for engineering time, that there isn't kind of like all these different sources …”
Ryan Singer Mar 30, 2025 ▶ 1:30:29 A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up")
SAASTR Insight
Padelford: Sales teams follow power laws; companies mistakenly just add headcount
“Most businesses that I've seen and most sales orgs that I've seen Almost always fall under a power law. Which is most of the business is being driven by a small number of people. And yet the company continues to add headcount and spread it out. And it's just s…”
Loren Padelford Oct 8, 2024 ▶ 27:47 The Secrets to Selling and Scaling in Vertical SaaS with Slice's CRO
SAASTR Disclosure
Rippling moved its CSM organization into the sales org around 2022
“In fact, at the time, the CSM org reported into our VP of customer experience who owned like implementation and support. And so we actually moved it over into the sales org probably about two years ago.”
Matt Plank Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 33:40 The Revenue Playbook: Rippling’s Top 3 Growth Tactics at Scale with Rippling CRO Matt Plank
SAASTR Disclosure
Checkout.com plans to add 100 sales reps in 2021
“Some of the things next year are like a CLM tool, which will greatly improve the merchant experience a comp tool because we're going to onboard another a hundred or so people in the sales org, you know, in a short period of time.”
Brooke Treseder Jan 20, 2021 ▶ 30:02 Secrets to Turbo Charging Sales in 2021 with Keyfactor, Checkout.com Contentstack & Insight Partners

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