Sophie Chesters

Chief Marketing Officer, HiBob · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sophie Chesters is an executive who leads global marketing at HR software platform HiBob, having previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at UserZoom. Earlier in her career, she spent over eight years in marketing roles at Google and served as SVP and CMO at Medallia through its 2019 initial public offering.

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Chesters: Startups must focus on one target persona until scaling

“So, you may have heard this before, but we think this is still really, really important to think about, and it's to define one persona until you scale. And as a CMO, I just love to hear a founder give this advice, because it means that a marketer and the produ…”

Sophie Chesters Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 11:53 10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR | UserZoom's CEO and CMO | SaaStr Software Community

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Chesters: Growth marketing without foundational messaging yields suboptimal ROI

“We still see early stage founders invest in growth marketing first, and the challenge with that is if you invest in growth marketing and you don't have clear, crisp value proposition, and you don't have that foundational messaging done, your marketing investme…”

Sophie Chesters Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 26:27 10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR | UserZoom's CEO and CMO | SaaStr Software Community

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Chesters: UserZoom is nearly at $100M ARR

“About half of that has been in SaaS. Couple of big companies, Medallia, Google, and in addition to helping users who scale to a hundred million ARR, which we're nearly there I've also advised and mentored some very early stage start-ups, which was a huge ton o…”

Sophie Chesters Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 0:11 10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR | UserZoom's CEO and CMO | SaaStr Software Community

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Building 79 features for PayPal unlocked Google and Amazon sales

“Luckily, Alfonso decided to take the UX researcher persona, which was the PayPal option, and, you know, built, I believe, 79 of those features, and that enabled the team to go and sell the same proposition to people like Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay.”

Sophie Chesters Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 13:28 10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR | UserZoom's CEO and CMO | SaaStr Software Community

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR \| UserZoom's CEO and CMO \| SaaStr Software	Sep 13, 2022	6m

Sophie Chesters

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