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90% of Indian SaaS first VP of Sales hires fail

Sridhar Taluwalia · How they built a $600M SaaS Company? Ft. Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu - Co-founders, Whatfix · Apr 17, 2023 · at 6:18

Host Sridhar Taluwalia discusses typical go-to-market pitfalls for Indian SaaS startups expanding into the US with Whatfix co-founders Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar Namburu.

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“I have seen 90% of the cases, the first VP sales from India goes terribly wrong, and then the founders become cold feet that they say, this is not working, then I have to move it.”

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