Lee: Gamma is building an enterprise sales team after reaching $100M ARR
Grant Lee · $0 to $100M ARR Fast. How Gamma Scaled Quickly without a Sales Team · Jul 29, 2026 · at 24:28
Grant Lee, co-founder and CEO of Gamma, discusses transitioning beyond a pure product-led prosumer model at SaaStr after reaching $100M ARR with zero sales reps.
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“Growing sales team, actually, some of our folks here, yeah. Growing sales team, you know, our first part of our journey was really just this prosumer motion, which is still our core growth engine, but we recognize, like, our ambition is to build a product that could be ubiquitous, right?”
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