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20Sales: How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine | Why You Have to Hire a CRO Pre-Product | Why Most Sales Reps Do Not Perform | Why Hiring Panels are BS in Interviews | Why Remote Sales Reps Do Not Care About Their Development with Chad Peets

20Sales: How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine | Why You Have to Hire a CRO Pre-Product | Why Most Sales Reps Do Not Perform | Why Hiring Panels are BS in Interviews | Why Remote Sales Reps Do Not Care About Their Development with Chad Peets

Update: 2024-08-23
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Chad Peets is one of the greatest sales leaders and recruiters of the last 25 years. From 2018 to 2023, Chad was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. Chad has worked with the world's best CEOs and CROs to build world-class go-to-market organizations. Chad is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Lacework and Luminary Cloud and on the boards of Clumio and Sigma Computing. He previously served as a board member for Astronomer, Transposit, and others. He was an early-stage investor at Snowflake, Sigma, Observe, Lacework, and Clumio.

In Today's Discussion with Chad Peet's We Discuss:

1. You Need a CRO Pre-Product:

  • Why does Chad believe that SaaS companies need a CRO pre-product?
  • Should the founder not be the right person to create the sales playbook?
  • What should the founder look for in their first CRO hire?
  • Does any great CRO really want to go back to an early startup and do it again?

2. What Everyone Gets Wrong in Building Sales Teams:

  • Why are most sales reps not performing?
  • How long does it take for sales teams to ramp? How does this change with PLG and enterprise?
  • What are the benchmarks of good vs great for average sales reps?
  • How do founders and VCs most often hurt their sales teams and performance?

3. How to Build a Hiring Machine:

  • What are the single biggest mistakes people make when hiring sales reps and teams?
  • Are sales people money motivated? How to create comp plans that incentivise and align?
  • Why does Chad believe that any sales rep that does not want to be in the office, is not putting their career and development first?
  • Why is it harder than ever to recruit great sales leaders today?

4. Lessons from Scaling Sales at Snowflake:

  • What are the single biggest lessons of what worked from scaling Snowflake's sales team?
  • What did not work? What would he do differently with the team again?
  • What did Snowflake teach Chad about success and culture and how they interplay together?

 

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20Sales: How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine | Why You Have to Hire a CRO Pre-Product | Why Most Sales Reps Do Not Perform | Why Hiring Panels are BS in Interviews | Why Remote Sales Reps Do Not Care About Their Development with Chad Peets

20Sales: How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine | Why You Have to Hire a CRO Pre-Product | Why Most Sales Reps Do Not Perform | Why Hiring Panels are BS in Interviews | Why Remote Sales Reps Do Not Care About Their Development with Chad Peets