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S3 E25 - Knowing When It’s Time | Sydney Sloan - CMO @ Drata

Aug 31, 2023
Sydney Sloan, CMO of Drata, discusses timing in your career and finding the right opportunity. She shares her experience of taking time off to recharge. Sydney emphasizes the need for balance and building relationships. She talks about measuring marketing impact, the changing landscape of marketing, including AI, and the importance of digital sophistication.
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  • Sloan emphasizes the importance of reinventing oneself and challenging previous thinking after a few years in a role.
  • Sloan prefers working in the scale stage of a company's growth, around the $200 million mark, where companies have established product-market fit and resources for growth.

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Knowing when to step away from a current role

In this podcast episode, Sydney Sloan, the CMO at Drata, discusses the importance of knowing when it's time to step away from a current role. She shares her personal experience of leaving Salesoft after three and a half years and explains the process she goes through to assess whether she still feels challenged and passionate about her work. Sloan emphasizes the significance of reinventing oneself and challenging previous thinking after a few years in a role. She also highlights the importance of having a strong team in place and the role of growth pace in keeping leaders motivated and engaged.

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