Agnes Bazin
Board Member, Explain. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Between 2014 and 2023, Agnès Bazin served as Head of Growth and Chief Development Officer at Doctolib, scaling the European healthtech unicorn from roughly 10 to over 3,000 employees. She now serves as a board member at AI procurement company Explain, sits on Doctolib’s Mission Committee, and backs early-stage impact companies.
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Everything Agnes Bazin said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bazin: Evaluate Reps and Scripts Before Blaming the Product
“Most of the time in sales, there are three, you know, options where it doesn't work. So the first option is that the wrong person is selling your product, people problem. Second option is that you're not selling your product in the right way. So it's basically…”
Bazin: A candidate's past track record does not count in sales hiring
“And I think in sales more than for any other type of population, what matters is to It's that, you know, the track record doesn't count at all.”
Bazin: Doctolib built a 300-person French sales org with zero executive hires
“I think that in France, we build a 300 people sales organization with zero executive hire. Hundreds of people were hired as individual business developers.”
Bazin: Field sales territories need 2,000 to 3,000 prospects per rep
“So you've gotta make sure that each A business developer got, ah, like, a pipe of prospect that is not too scattered around so that he doesn't spend the whole day in his car. So you've got to split your territory between, you know, pools of 2003 thousand prosp…”
Bazin: Inside sales only works for solo practices and non-medical specialties
“And then what we realized is that it works, but only for certain segments. So it works for simple organization with single doctors. Mostly for, you know, non-medical specialities like physio psychologist and everything where it's easier to change things in the…”
Bazin: Sales reps can deviate from playbooks only if they overperform
“There, basically, there's a rule that if you overperform, you can do whatever you want. But if you cannot prove, you know, superior performance, then you have to, you know, stick to the best practices that we've set up and shared and everything.”
Bazin: Waiting 10 days to respond to sales applicants loses all top candidates
“So if you've got applications in sales, you wait for 10 days to answer them, you can be sure that the only ones that would be left would be the bad ones, because the other guys, they can get, you know, offers within 10 days.”
Bazin: Doctolib Generates Majority of Sales Through Inbound
“And basically, I think it's only thanks to having thousands and thousands of meetings every week with super nice, super entrepreneurial guys that doctors love, that we build such a huge trust on the French market. That allows us today to have a majority of our…”
Bazin: Doctolib built a 25-person recruitment team structured like a sales org
“So we build, I build a 25 people recruitment team that work exactly like a sales organization.”
Bazin: Doctolib CEO walked 20km door-to-door with reps in new cities
“Our CEO and founder, Stan, he's really leading by example, and so, for example, at the beginning, I explained to you that we opened, like, 15 cities, so he would spend one day alone with the guy, And so when he goes there are two options. Either the guy had en…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Agnes's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 SAASTRLEDGER | Board Member, Explain | 1 | 11 | — | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |