Astha Thakur

CEO

Bangalore, Karnataka, India7 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Founded India's first SaaS Sales community.
Successfully sold multiple SaaS products to C-level executives.
Managed a community of over 400 sales professionals.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales professional with community management expertise.

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B2B MarketingDigital StrategyKey Account Acquisition & RetentionKey Client RelationshipsMarketing Analytics

About

Heyyoo!! Welcome to one of the awesomest LinkedIn of a sales person. Not saying I am the awesomest sales person, YET. I started sales by accident like 99% of us, when I did not want to continue with my chosen subject in graduation. Eventually fell in love with this profession. Recently started learning & upskilling, after a few realisations. I have sold multiple SaaS products to C-level execs, sweet <3 Currently on a mission to be the best AE in the market. Other than this, I run 3 sales communities catering to 400+ SDRs and AEs in India to enable more people with knowledge and confidence. Update- Doing communities full time now. Don't have a fixed plan to 'where do you see yourself in 5 years?' May be I'll be on TV, and you'll see me. Who knows! Thanks for reading, for anything else, please reachout.

Experience

Saastock

Lead - SaaStock Founder Membership

Jan 2025 – Sep 2025 · 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Hands down one of the coolest and nicest folks to work with. Trying to grow and manage the founders' community at SaaStock by doing outbound, managing inbound interest, maintaining Hubspot, curating events and a lot more.

Factors.ai

Account Executive

Mar 2024 – Oct 2024 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Loved everything here, had to move on cuz was busy getting married and could not be in the office setting 5 days a week or 4 or even 3. All in all, was prepping for a fat wedding and had tons of fun.

Sales 101

Chief

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pan India · Remote

India’s first SaaS Sales community ✨
We’re an exclusive paid network for sales professionals where we:
1. Host brunches
2. Mixers
3. Workshops to learn & connect
4. Run AMAs with top sales leaders
5. Share job opportunities and career support, and more
For companies, our Sales 101 hiring model makes it easier to hire vetted sales talent through a community-led approach.
If you’re in SaaS sales (or hiring for it), you’ll feel right at home here 🚀
DM to know more <3

Peakflo (yc w22)

Account Executive

Oct 2022 – Jun 2023 · 8 mos · Singapore

Grateful for the CEO to trust me and offer an AE role, met some of the coolest Indonesians, made 2 friends for life.
Did an okay job in closing given it was my first AE role, could have done better NGL, but was working a bit too much, started to get mentally and physically exhausted, office politics started to happen, heard leadership bitched about me to a newly joined AE ( he told me lmao, I was the one onboarding him ) and that was the end of it.
Quit and chilled for like 3 months. Closed some good logos though, one of which was a $31K ARR deal.

Yellow.ai

Enterprise SDR

Oct 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

They totally snatched me from Skit, along with my the then boyfriend, now husband.
Did the same sh*t as Skit.
But this time, not just Big Banks, also worked on Big Retail. Everything was Big because back then conversational bots were hella expensive and only Big companies were doing it.
Wanted to become an AE, was confident will do a good job, management didn’t want to promote, Boom I quit without a job at hand.
Made some fine commission money to get me going.

Skit (previously vernacular.ai)

Enterprise SDR

Oct 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Found myself the first SaaS sales role during the pandemic.
Proud of myself for not knowing what SaaS or SDR really was, to learning about it, to finding a job on LinkedIn within 10 days of trying.
Made a cover letter without chatGPT ffs.
Generated ‘don’t remember the number but decent enough’ meetings with CXOs at Big Banks in India.
Skit builds conversational bots to reduce ‘inefficiency’ in contact centres led by humans. Tsk!

Zomato

Sales Manager

Aug 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana

Onboarded over 10k+ restaurants on Zomato's platform. Used to make calls, send agreements, made sure documents and certificates were in place, worked with the content/menu team to take them live for you all to order cheesecake shamelessly at 2 am after rolling one.
Got bored, moved to another place.