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20VC: Inside Clay's Sales Playbook Scaling to $100M ARR | How to Set Sales Comp Plans | How to Read Sales Talent Linkedin Profiles | What Profiles to Hire & Fire | How to Increase Performance and Speed in Sales Teams with Becca Lindquist
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Becca Lindquist is Head of Sales at Clay, one of the fastest-growing AI companies to reach $100M+ ARR. She previously helped scale dbt Labs into a category-defining data platform, building and leading high-performing sales teams. Before that, she was an early sales leader at Heap, where she played a key role in scaling the GTM motion.
AGENDA:
Why most sales reps plateau—and when you should leave your company
Should you jump from SaaS to a hot AI startup right now?
How long is too long at one company—and what great tenure actually looks like
How to read a LinkedIn profile like a world-class sales leader
The biggest hiring mistake sales leaders make (and how to catch it fast)
Titles vs salary: what actually predicts a great hire
What early-stage founders must look for in their first sales hires
How to evaluate AI startups: PMF, retention, and real signals that matter
Sales comp decoded: quota, OTE, and how to design winning incentives
How to build a high-performance sales culture (and avoid a toxic one)
What makes a true champion—and why most reps get this wrong
Weekly forecasting: how elite sales teams run pipeline reviews
Are SDRs dead? How AI is really changing outbound sales
Why every rep owns pipeline—and how top teams generate it
The future of sales productivity: AI tools, workflows, and what actually works
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