70% of first-time VP Sales in SaaS don’t make it past 12 months, and the overall average tenure is now just 19 months.
VP Sales worldwide are struggling because they don't really know what VCs expect from them, making it harder to get the backing they need at the highest level.
This is why we have brought together three leading VC experts, who will show you what truly makes a great and enduring Sales leader in a VC-backed scale-up.
Agenda
What exactly gets a VC excited when they hear about your start-up
How to think about a mind blowing pitch deck
Prepping the team around you who may be doing this for the first time
What do VCs wish scale-up founders & CROs would do differently
Which unit economics you need to get bang on to hit the top multiples
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Pete is a 4x successful scale-up revenue leader. He has been running SaaS revenue teams for over 20 years, most recently as CRO at Ometria, who Deloitte placed in the Top 10 growth businesses in the UK with revenue acceleration above 3000%.
Pete is an experienced investor and qualified accountant with 15 years of experience. He was the Finance Director for Peak, a fast-growing AI business, where he oversaw £5m of investment and a five-fold increase in the company’s value over two years.
Rob is on the board of Zego, Carwow, Primer, and Cleo. He's always looking for new investments in tech companies with $B potential requiring financing of $1M to $20M. He has also been involved in investments in Revolut, Nutmeg, and GoCardless.
Mandy has built & scaled some of the largest, fastest-growing sales startups including LivingSocial ($20M-$750M), MyNewPlace ($0-$20M, 60 FTE), Main Street Hub ($2M – $10M, 20-250 reps in 1 year) and Zenefits, the fastest growing SaaS company ever.
Sales Impact Academy is the world's leading go-to-market learning platform providing a continuous live learning solution for high-growth technology companies.