Rule of 40 vs Grow At All Costs w/ Mark Wayland (CRO, Box)
When budgets are tight and every rep needs to perform, you need force multipliers, not more headcount.
Sometimes you need Rule of 40 -- a private equity orientation that can still lead to great success for the founders, the executives, and the investors.
Mark Wayland (CRO, Box) talk about how only a few months into his grow at all costs company he found himself with an activist investor and a pivot to Rule of 40.
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How to Pivot The Model, The Playbook & The Team When The Macro Changes w/ Carina Brockl (fmr. CRO, Aurora Solar)
You've navigated your company to unicorn status. Crack the champagne, ring the bell, and hang the banner. Only, months later the macro changes.
Now, you need to pivot the model, pivot the playbook, and pivot the team.
Today I'm joined by Carina Brockl, (fmr. CRO, Aurora Solar) who faced these challenging shifts and tells us how she navigated them.
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GTM in the AI Era w/ Andy Shorkey (CRO, Writer)
There's tremendous conviction that AI is eating the software ecosystem.
Well, today we speak with Andy Shorkey (CRO, Writer).
Not only is he navigating all the complexities of bringing native AI products to market, he's also reinventing the way that go-to market is done internally in a far more efficient way in the post AI world.
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How to Cold Call When 90% Hang Up (Roleplay)
Send me your cold calls! Email us at TheScienceofScaling@gmail.com.
I'll help you set more meetings &. we'll use your call in an upcoming video.
So Producer Matthew fails at cold calling. But he learns the framework that actually works.
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I roped in Producer Matthew to actually try selling me a pizza. It was terrifying. But even if you're good at this, you get hung up on 90% of the time.
I break down what makes effective cold calls work - from the opening line that gets you past those crucial first seconds, to handling objections without needing people to like you (apparently my people-pleasing instincts are a sales career killer).
You'll learn Sam Nelson's proven framework that even Harvard Business School students use, why sounding like a "nervous 14-year-old" is actually better than sounding polished, and how to stay in the objection "flywheel" until you get that meeting.
If you're still reading this, go ahead and drop a cold calling story in the comments. I'll be waiting!!
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The Founder Selling to Professional Sales Transition w/ Dmitry Shevelenko (CBO, Perplexity)
Perplexity is attempting something no one thought possible: Challenging Google for search dominance.
Dmitri Shevelenko was advising five different orgs, before fully signing on to Perplexity. What energy and pull he found from this vision?
And he unpacks how Perplexity successfully transitioned from founder selling to professional sales.
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The Science of Scaling is a HubSpot Media podcast // Learn more about HubSpot for Startups // Produced by Matthew Brown
Each week, host Mark Roberge (Sr. Lecturer at Harvard Business School, Co-Founder at Stage 2 Capital, Founding CRO at HubSpot) talks with the most successful sales leaders in tech to find out the science behind scaling a company’s revenue and sales.
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