Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Qualtrics: Scaling an Inside-Sales Organization
Patell, J; Quigless, M; Bowman, KCase SGSB-E503-EEntrepreneurshipCEO, Ryan Smith and the rest of the founding team at Qualtrics grew the company to 350 employees and an estimated $50M in revenue through an inside-sales model. After ten years of bootstrapping however, the company took on $70M in funding from prominent venture capital funds. With this milestone, the team faced a new inflection point in the company’s growth. To support the next phase of evolution, Smith brought in John D’Agostino as the new H...Starting at €8.20
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Atlassian: Sales
Bowman, K; , J, Lattin; Saucedo, MCase SGSB-E625-EEntrepreneurshipAtlassian: Sales examines the company’s unique, no-touch sales model for enterprise products that help teams track projects, collaborate, and build products. The case explores how the company developed and sold its first product, JIRA, and how early lessons helped shape the company’s no-touch sales model for all subsequent products. It then discusses the organizational effects of a low-price, volume-based model, and how the advocacy team and chan...Starting at €8.20
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Atlassian: Sales - Teaching note
Bowman, K; , J, Lattin; Saucedo, MTeaching Note SGSB-E625TN-EEntrepreneurshipAtlassian: Sales examines the company’s unique, no-touch sales model for enterprise products that help teams track projects, collaborate, and build products. The case explores how the company developed and sold its first product, JIRA, and how early lessons helped shape the company’s no-touch sales model for all subsequent products. It then discusses the organizational effects of a low-price, volume-based model, and how the advocacy team and chan...Starting at €0.00
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Eleva Educação: Transforming K-12 Education in Brazil
Lee, Gloria; Mansfield, Imogen; Uribe Villa, DanielCase SGSB-E760-EEntrepreneurshipEleva Educação is a Brazilian education company that owns and operates private K-12 schools and sells curriculum tools. As of 2020, they directly serve 84,000 students in a high-performing network of 114 affordable private schools in seven states across Brazil, reach 279,000 other students who are enrolled in schools that have licensed Eleva’s Learning Management System (LMS), and have successfully opened a new “premium” flagship school with a di...Starting at €8.20