

Uncharted Podcast
Uncharted Podcast
The goal of Uncharted Podcast is to allow a space for some of the most brilliant individuals in the business to tell their stories. I’ve found that many of these great people got where they are by diving into the unknowns, or the uncharted.
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Oct 18, 2021 • 34min
Uncharted Podcast #105 featuring Jenn Knight: Why Curiosity and Empathy are Crucial to Career and Business Transformation
Jenn Knight is the Co-Founder & CTO at AgentSync. Additionally, Jenn Knight has had 3 past jobs including Head of Internal Systems at Stripe. As co-founder and CTO of AgentSync, Jenn Knight is building the tools and infrastructure powering the insurance industry. Knight has spent much of her technical career as one of the few women in the room, which makes her even more focused on hiring a diverse team at AgentSync. (https://boards.greenhouse.io/agentsync)
This week's episode was brought to you with the support of shopify.com/scale, Indeed.com/scale and Netsuite.com/scale

Oct 11, 2021 • 42min
Uncharted Podcast #104, The Art of Creating Urgency in B2B Sales With CoSell's Brendon Cassidy
Brendon Cassidy graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California, started his career in Recruiting, and then transitioned into sales where he eventually landed himself at LinkedIn in 2005 as employee #15, and LinkedIn’s first ever Head of Sales. Brendon’s next move was one that would change his life forever. He went to work for Jason Lemkin as the VP Sales at Echosign, which was eventually acquired by Adobe. After Echosign, Brendon went on to be the VP Sales at Talkdesk, now valued at over $10 billion. Then started his own consulting firm, Cassidy Ventures, where he helped found Gong, and most recently co-founded CoSell.io where he works as the Co-CEO.
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Oct 4, 2021 • 11min
Uncharted Podcast #103, 5 Learnings From Being at The Largest In-Person Cloud Gathering in Two Years
Our very own, Poya Osgouei talks through some of the learnings from the largest cloud gathering last week.

Sep 27, 2021 • 26min
Uncharted Podcast #102, From Being Paralyzed to a Million+ First Year as Senior SDR with Jack Ryan
Three years after suffering from a spinal cord injury in a jujitsu class and being paralyzed from the neck down, Jack Ryan Greener hiked Mt. Whitney.
As an inspiring team member that Poya has been fortunate to work with, listen to the incredible story of how Jack went from being paralyzed to sourcing over $1M in revenue in his first year as an SDR at SaaStr.
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Sep 20, 2021 • 18min
Uncharted Podcast #101, Reflecting on the first 100 episodes on the Uncharted Podcast and Announcing The Top 5 Most Listened Episodes
On this week's episode, Poya and Robby reflect on the first 100 episodes and some of their top learnings on the Uncharted Podcast, as well as announce the 5 most downloaded episode on the Uncharted Podcast.
This week's episode was supported by Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at www.indeed.com/scale) and Bambee (Get your HR Audit for free at Bambee.com/uncharted).

Sep 13, 2021 • 50min
Uncharted Podcast #100, Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Entrepreneurship With SaaStr's Jason Lemkin
This week's episode features Jason Lemkin. He is a three time successful founder, current Managing Director at SaaStr Fund, and CEO and founder of SaaStr, the largest community of SaaS founders, investors and executives in the cloud. This conversation was candid as ever and Jason debunked the ease that startups and venture capital are often portrayed with.
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Sep 6, 2021 • 1h 27min
Uncharted Podcast #99, What's Required at the Different Stages of Growth From a Sales Leadership Lens With Robby Allen & Collin Stewart
On this week's episode, we have Collin Stewart - Host of the Predictable Revenue Podcast welcome our very own Robby Allen, veteran sales leader and current VP of Sales at AgentSync.
At the time of this recording, Robby had grown Zenefits’ sales team to 250 reps. Grew Flexport’s sales development-sourced revenue by $80M, en route to a $110M Series C round, at just shy of a $1B company valuation. Now, he’s helping startups of all kinds grow their sales machines. Suffice it to say: Robby knows a thing or two in the world of revenue generation.
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale), Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at www.indeed.com/scale) and Bambee (Get your HR Audit for free at Bambee.com/uncharted).

Aug 29, 2021 • 13min
Uncharted Podcast #98, Top Do's and Don'ts To Have An Effective Start at a New VP Role With Bryan Elsesser, VP of Sales at SaaStr
In the run up to the 2021 SaaStr Annual, our very own, Poya Osgouei sits down with Bryan Elsesser, VP of Sales at Saastr. Bryan shares tips and his perspective on what's been effective and useful during his first 6 months as the VP of Sales at SaaStr.
Join us at SaaStr Annual at the end of September. You can buy your tickets at SaaStr Annual and use promo code: "Poya30" to receive 30% off. Get your tickets here - https://www.saastrannual2021.com/buy-tickets?promo=poya30
Connect with Bryan on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanelsesser/)

Aug 23, 2021 • 17min
Uncharted Podcast #97, What It's Like Starting Off Your Sales Career at a Large Company
Poya Osgouei was recently on the "Beyond Quota" Podcast Hosted by Pouyan Salehi and Ross Pomerantz (Corporate Bro). Beyond Quota is video series and podcast that explores the real stories from the sales trenches often edgy and sometimes controversial. The video interview can be found here: https://bit.ly/3yk1xFv
Each episode features guests who started their careers in sales and are now builders of companies, products, content, or have moved on to other careers. On this episode, we talk through Poya's experience working at large companies and using that to move to early-stage startups.
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale), Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at www.indeed.com/scale) and Bambee (Get your HR Audit for free at Bambee.com/uncharted).

Aug 16, 2021 • 22min
Uncharted Podcast #96, Understanding the Pros and Cons of Scaling a Family Business and Tips to Running it Successfully w/ Trevor Baldwin
Trevor is the Chief Executive Officer of Baldwin Risk Partners. Trevor joined the Firm in 2009 as a Commercial Risk Advisor working primarily with healthcare and private equity clients, over time he led the firm’s Commercial Risk Management Group as Managing Director, followed by being BRP’s President & CEO.
Trevor has a background investing in and working with companies to shape their goals and success. Before joining Baldwin Risk Partners, Trevor worked at the private equity firm HealthEdge Investment Partners, LLC. While at HealthEdge, Trevor divided his time between working with portfolio companies on operational improvements and assisting in the execution of new transactions.
Connect with Trevor Baldwin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-baldwin-a4053212
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) and Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at www.indeed.com/scale).


