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Hiring and ramping GTM people
Your first sales hire, the interview loop, the ramp plan, and knowing early when someone is not going to make it.
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What did HubSpot learn about which sales candidates actually succeed, and does it hold up?
Mark Roberge scored every hire against a list of traits and then went back and checked which ones correlated with performance. Five held up: coacha...
What does a genuinely elite onboarding and ramp program look like, and what does it buy you?
It looks like a school, not a buddy system. Cohorts rather than one-offs, a written curriculum split into market, product, process and tools, certi...
How do the best-run sales orgs decide someone is not going to make it, and how fast do they move?
They decide against a written bar that existed before the person joined, and they decide early. The mechanism is a ramp scorecard with dated gates,...