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20Sales: Everything You Know About Sales Playbooks is Wrong | How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires | How to Crush Pipeline and Deal Reviews as a Team | How to Structure Sales Teams and Sales Comp Plans with Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password

Author
The Twenty Minute VC
Published
Fri 07 Mar 2025
Episode Link
https://thetwentyminutevc.libsyn.com/20sales-everything-you-know-about-sales-playbooks-is-wrong-how-to-hire-and-train-your-first-sales-hires-how-to-crush-pipeline-and-deal-reviews-as-a-team-how-to-structure-sales-teams-and-sales-comp-plans-with-julian-teixeira-cro-1password

Julian Teixeira is the Chief Revenue Officer at 1Password, where he has grown B2B revenue over 8x and scaled a team of more than 450 in go-to-market. 1Password set the record for the largest raise in Canadian history at the start of 2022 and has raised nearly $1B in capital throughout his time with the company. Prior to 1Password, Julian served as the head of global sales at Lightspeed Commerce, a company he helped scale from startup to IPO and through over 10 acquisitions throughout his decade-long tenure. 

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

04:27 Sales Lessons from Scaling to $1BN in ARR

05:20 How to Create and Master a Sales Playbook

07:53 Lessons on First Sales Hires

09:41 Setting Goals and Targets for Sales Teams

13:22 The Reality of Tech Sales Today

16:19 Evaluating and Managing Sales Reps

19:07 Outbound Prospecting and Pipeline Generation

22:22 Hunter vs. Farmer Sales Models

24:15 Compensation and Specialization in Sales Teams

28:56 Outbound vs Inbound Sales

32:47 Pipeline and Deal Reviews

37:37 Sales Tech Stack and Tools

38:40 Maintaining Sales Morale

44:55 Are Remote Sales Teams Less Effective

46:44 Final Thoughts and Advice

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