GTM 70: The ‘5 Ps’ Winning Formula Behind Crunchbase’s Sales Leader Ang McManamon

Nov 28, 2023

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Ang McManamon is a tenured sales leader who puts culture first, helps build high-performing SaaS teams, and executes with urgency across all areas of an organization. She is currently the VP of Sales at Crunchbase, where she leads a high-growth team out of New York City. She previously served as a sales leader for Amazon, Knotel, and Stack Overflow.

What You Will Learn:

Retrospective sales career and overall career insight.
Ang's 5 Ps: Professionalism, Preparation, Process, Performance, Play - and why they are important.
Inspiration for women leaders and aspiring leaders.
Go-to-market perspectives.

Highlights:
(9:28) Ang’s 5 Ps - 5 principles that make up her foundation, created to remind herself of who she wants to be and how she wants to lead to then expose team to them to make sure there is transparency and trust.

(13:37) How to approach preparation, including in a remote-first workplace.

(30:12) An impactful career story on becoming a strong woman leader.

(38:43) Advice to women facing challenges with fellow women in the workplace.

(40:28) What Ang would do differently now being able to reflect retrospectively on her career.

(43:46) One thing revenue leaders believe to be true that Ang thinks is bull$***.

(47:15) One thing that is working for Ang in go-to-market right now.

Guest Speaker Link:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angenyc/

Host Speaker Links:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ssbarker/
Newsletter: thegtmnewsletter.substack.com/

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