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Podcast: The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders
Episode: Sales Pipeline: Why Paddle's Upmarket Push Failed First
Description: Christian Owens hired a team of senior enterprise sales reps at Paddle and watched them all quit within nine months. The sales pipeline had value - customers doing $50M in annual volume were already on the platform. But scaling SaaS to enterprise requires a completely different value proposition, and the team was still selling the one built for $1M companies.
In this episode, Christian reveals how Paddle went from that failed enterprise sales push to signing Verizon, Fortinet, and ServiceNow. You will learn how Paddle built a sales pipeline that grew from $10M to nearly $100M in...