$5 Million to $25 Million in Under Two Years, with Kyle Porter, CEO of Salesloft

<p>In this episode of <em>SaaS Connect</em> by <a href="https://www.cloudsoftwareassociation.com/">Cloud Software Association</a>, Kyle Porter, CEO of Salesloft, provides rich information about how organizational health, values, mission, vision and alignment are the greatest competitive advantages a company can have.</p> <p>Kyle shares how he never used what he was taught from his wise mentors and ended up running his business into the ground, burning $250,000 of investors’ money.</p> <p>He decided to reboot the business and start up again from scratch, this time making the choice to focus entirely on organizational health, mission, vision and values. Five years later, the business experienced dramatic growth in revenue, expanding at the rate of 120% annually.</p> <p>Today, with 350 employees, Salesloft is the seventh fastest growing company in North America. What changed? Here are the lessons any company can implement:</p> <ul> <li>Everyone at the top needs to be the first to take organizational values to heart and inject them into every element of the business.</li> <li>Tactics for focusing on organizational values:<br> <br> 1. Have a one-page strategic plan that includes the purpose (why you do what you do), defined values (how you will behave), mission, three-year core strategies, annual goals, quarterly goals and quarterly objectives. At a special meeting, every person in the organization presents their own individual objectives and how these fit into the company’s objectives.This helps the business stay focused on the right things.<br> <br> 2. Every weekend the CEO provides an update to every person involved in the company. In this episode, Kyle shares what he includes in the update and how this activity keeps him as CEO accountable, too.<br> <br> 3. Values-based interviews to make sure the staff they bring on board fit the values of the company. Every single prospective employee goes through value-check interviews.<br> </li> <li>Competitive differentiating factors:<br> 1. Customer first<br> 2. Team bef