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Classy's 220-person team is 45% sales and 35-40% developers

Scott Chisholm · 917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company · Jan 27, 2018 · at 11:43

Scott Chisholm, CEO of Classy, outlines the company's headcount and departmental breakdown.

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“We're about 220 folks and the makeup of that is about 45% sales, about 35 to 40% dev, and then everyone else is, is the rest.”

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Disclosure
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“We're, yeah, we're over that.”
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Disclosure
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