Growing Zapier past $140M ARR

With Steeve Vakeeswaran, Head of Sales & Expansion at Zapier

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Today, we’re picking the 🧠 of Steeve Vakeeswaran, Head Of Sales & Expansion at Zapier.

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Zapier’s first Sales hire 👊🏼

Zapier's growth from $0-$140 million has been largely driven by their bottom-up self-serve engine. But in early 2021, with Steeve at the helm, Zapier started testing a Sales motion. Over the last year and a half, Steeve has incubated, hired, and built a sales-assist team from scratch.

Catch our in-depth breakdown of Zapier’s growth story here

In January 2022, CEO & Co-founder Wade Foster announced that they are officially hiring for Sales roles.

We cover a lot of ground here with Steeve, including:

• Let’s settle it - Is it Zappier or Zapeier?

• How does someone go from KPMG to Shopify to becoming Zapier’s first Sales hire?

• The cultural challenges of introducing a sales motion in a PLG company

• Differences between traditional sales and the hot new “sales assist role”

• When does a PLG company start thinking about sales?

• Zapier's culture is rather unique

• Building virality for a single-player tool like Zapier

• Levers other than Sales-assist to increase the depth of adoption and expansion

• Zapier's most interesting use case

• East coast or west coast?

• Biggest mistake that PLG companies make

• Tweet Reactions & Rapid Fire

Shownotes 📝

Steeve’s recommendations:

🛠 Tool: Grain

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