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Jeetu Mahtani

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
387 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

Like stop talking about your product and its features when you connect with the prospect. Spend your time understanding the customer, understanding the buyer, what matters to them, their industry, what are they trying to get to, and you will get to your product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

Like stop talking about your product and its features when you connect with the prospect. Spend your time understanding the customer, understanding the buyer, what matters to them, their industry, what are they trying to get to, and you will get to your product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

Like stop talking about your product and its features when you connect with the prospect. Spend your time understanding the customer, understanding the buyer, what matters to them, their industry, what are they trying to get to, and you will get to your product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

But too many sales reps out there still spend way too much time just like spitting a lot of their product and their features out very early in the sales process.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

But too many sales reps out there still spend way too much time just like spitting a lot of their product and their features out very early in the sales process.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

But too many sales reps out there still spend way too much time just like spitting a lot of their product and their features out very early in the sales process.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

It's partly the founders. And I think this is where like founders have it in them. They don't know what they don't know. And this is where like, if I'm a founder, I mean, there are great resources to go and learn. Like, you know, how do you run like a reasonable sales process? Like it's not rocket science.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

It's partly the founders. And I think this is where like founders have it in them. They don't know what they don't know. And this is where like, if I'm a founder, I mean, there are great resources to go and learn. Like, you know, how do you run like a reasonable sales process? Like it's not rocket science.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

It's partly the founders. And I think this is where like founders have it in them. They don't know what they don't know. And this is where like, if I'm a founder, I mean, there are great resources to go and learn. Like, you know, how do you run like a reasonable sales process? Like it's not rocket science.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

I think the challenge founders will have is just simply like, how will prospects react when we ask them all these questions? They're just like hesitant to ask these deeper, harder questions. I think they do need to work with whether it's their board or mentors and help them get some confidence that they can do this. At the end of the day, customers want to work with salespeople that they like.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

I think the challenge founders will have is just simply like, how will prospects react when we ask them all these questions? They're just like hesitant to ask these deeper, harder questions. I think they do need to work with whether it's their board or mentors and help them get some confidence that they can do this. At the end of the day, customers want to work with salespeople that they like.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

I think the challenge founders will have is just simply like, how will prospects react when we ask them all these questions? They're just like hesitant to ask these deeper, harder questions. I think they do need to work with whether it's their board or mentors and help them get some confidence that they can do this. At the end of the day, customers want to work with salespeople that they like.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

What they want to do is like you because you care. You want to learn about them and their business, and you want to help them succeed. That's what matters at the end of the day in sales.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

What they want to do is like you because you care. You want to learn about them and their business, and you want to help them succeed. That's what matters at the end of the day in sales.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

What they want to do is like you because you care. You want to learn about them and their business, and you want to help them succeed. That's what matters at the end of the day in sales.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

It's not a perfect example, Harry, but I do think with the way digital and AI are going, I think Amazon's a great example of how selling is going to evolve. Like, for example, I had a problem with a product the other day. I went to my account. I was like, I have a problem with this product. Like, they gave me a list of resources based on my problem.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

It's not a perfect example, Harry, but I do think with the way digital and AI are going, I think Amazon's a great example of how selling is going to evolve. Like, for example, I had a problem with a product the other day. I went to my account. I was like, I have a problem with this product. Like, they gave me a list of resources based on my problem.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

It's not a perfect example, Harry, but I do think with the way digital and AI are going, I think Amazon's a great example of how selling is going to evolve. Like, for example, I had a problem with a product the other day. I went to my account. I was like, I have a problem with this product. Like, they gave me a list of resources based on my problem.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

Very next action was like, did it solve your problem? No. All right. We're launching a chatbot so you can speak with a human. had a chat with an AI chatbot. It got me pretty far, but it didn't give me the actual answer. They're like, all right, hold tight. We're calling you. So someone called me and I spoke with the human on the phone.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

Very next action was like, did it solve your problem? No. All right. We're launching a chatbot so you can speak with a human. had a chat with an AI chatbot. It got me pretty far, but it didn't give me the actual answer. They're like, all right, hold tight. We're calling you. So someone called me and I spoke with the human on the phone.