CMO Samsara, Sarah Patterson: What You Do vs. Why It Matters
Sarah Patterson, CMO of Samsara, doesn’t believe in keeping your armor up around your coworkers: “You’ve got something else on your mind, it’s going to come through,” she says. While working at Salesf...
28 Feb 202259min
CRO Calendly, Kate Ahlering: Embracing Leadership - On and Off the Basketball Court
Kate Ahlering might be the perfect guest for this podcast. She eventually worked her way up to Chief Sales Officer of Glassdoor, but when she joined in 2013, she helped define the company’s leadership...
21 Feb 202253min
CEO Loom, Joe Thomas: Communication, the Mother of All Skills
When Rippling CEO Parker Conrad was raising a massive $250 million round last year, he didn’t start by presenting his deck to venture capitalists in person. Instead, he sent a 39-minute demo of his pr...
14 Feb 20221h 15min
President at Databricks, Andy Kofoid: Reinvention at Any Stage
When Andy Kofoid was growing up in the working-class town of Joliet, Illinois, he dreamed of getting to college and — like a lot of his relatives — worked in construction. Today, Andy is laying digita...
7 Feb 20221h 13min
Former CEO Splunk, Doug Merritt: Creating 360° Order in Chaos
Doug Merritt joins this episode on the tail end of his impressive run as Splunk’s CEO. With decades of leadership in what can be described as an “exploratory career,” Doug breaks down his professional...
31 Jan 20221h 22min
CEO Stord, Sean Henry: Supply Chains... Are Fun?
Stord, a Kleiner portfolio company, and its co-founder/CEO, Sean Henry, are defying a multitude of limits. While Sean is ranked as the youngest unicorn founder, he refuses to let his age define him. D...
24 Jan 20221h
Former President at NetApp, Tom Mendoza: Sustaining Urgency and Injecting Tension
Tom Mendoza, former President at NetApp, knows that there is a way to do business while bringing out the good in it. Tom has embedded this throughout his career and continues to make it a philosophica...
17 Jan 20221h 20min
President, Global Strategic Customers at Salesforce, Jim Steele: Measuring Your Facetime
Jim Steele, President of Global Strategic Customers at Salesforce, is the man, the myth, and the legend who helped increase Salesforce’s revenue from $22 million to over $5 billion. Working since he w...
10 Jan 20221h 19min
