Revenue Execution: Defining the Standard for Revenue Excellence

Becca Lindquist is the Head of Sales at dbt Labs, helping to 10x Enterprise revenue and grow the sales team from 3 to 20+ in the past year. She enjoys figuring out the sales and GTM motions in the early part of the startup journey, and talked to Ross about all things early stage sales in this week's episode. Subscribe to From Vendorship to Partnership for more episodes like this! Interested in learning directly from leaders who helped build & scale one of the most successful startup sales teams? On Tuesday, April 12 at 2pm Eastern, we’re hosting a masterclass with former Stripe sales leaders (and Ross’ former colleagues): Ryan O’Holleran, Director of Enterprise Sales at Airwallex Geraud Gonzales, Director of US Partner Sales at Paypal Abby Westby, Head of Sales at Parafin We’ll talk about their experience as AEs scaling the Stripe sales team together, and their advice & lessons learned when moving from sales rep roles → leadership roles. Save your seat for the masterclass here!

Welcome to the first episode of Season 2: Seller’s Journey! This season, our host and Accord CEO & Founder Ross Rich talks to startup sales leaders – diving deep into their experience building winning processes, coaching & scaling teams, and partnering with customers. Our guest this episode is Andrew Bothwell, SVP of Sales and Success at Spekit. Andrew has been scaling sales teams for the past 17 years, and is a Salesforce, Zendesk, Talkdesk, and WalkMe alum. He and Ross chat about common mistakes from startup sales leaders, how to approach building your sales team in today’s competitive job market, and the importance of having a growth & learning mindset. Subscribe to From Vendorship to Partnership for more episodes like this!

In this bonus episode, we’re sharing a masterclass on How Today’s Revenue Leaders Win. Get tips from leaders at Figma, Metadata, and Scratchpad about successfully building & leading your sales org and collaborating cross-functionally. Get more takeaways from the masterclass: https://inaccord.com/blog-posts/advice-from-3-veteran-revenue-leaders-balancing-sales-marketing-cs-product Season 2: Seller's Journey is launching next Wednesday, March 30! Subscribe to the podcast here or at https://inaccord.com/from-vendorship-to-partnership#podcast for the latest episodes and other startup & sales insights.

In this bonus episode, we’re sharing a masterclass on Selling to Modern B2B Buyers. Get practical tips and strategies for adapting to today’s shifting buyer expectations and creating a more transparent, collaborative sales process. Get more takeaways from the masterclass here.  Exciting news – Season 2: Seller's Journey is launching in 2 weeks, on Wednesday, March 30! Ross will talk to startup sales leaders – diving deep into their experience building winning processes, coaching & scaling teams, and partnering with customers. Subscribe to get notified about Season 2 launch and the latest episodes!

In this bonus episode, we’re sharing a masterclass on Building a Repeatable Sales Process for Early Stage Startups. Get practical tips on documenting your sales process and coaching your team, from top startup sales leaders at Rampd, Northstar, and Balance. Get more takeaways from the masterclass here and stay tuned for more info on season 2 coming soon!

We have a few special bonus episodes for you while we get ready to launch Season 2: Seller's Journey! This week, we're sharing a masterclass on How to Win More Deals with Mutual Action Plans. Our panel includes expert sales trainers Skip Miller & Alice Heiman, plus Figma’s top Enterprise rep, Aaron Cramer. We talked about why every sales team should be using mutual action plans for their deals, and shared tips for how to get started. Meet the Experts: Alice Heiman, Founder & Chief Sales Energizer Starting her own company in 1997, Alice is nationally known for working with B2B companies that have exceptional growth potential to elevate their sales and increase their valuation. Skip Miller, Expert Sales Trainer & Founder of M3 Learning As President of M3 Learning, Skip has provided training to hundreds of companies in over 35 countries. He created M3 Learning to “make a salesperson better on each individual call.” Aaron Cramer, Enterprise AE at Figma As a founding member of the Figma sales team, Aaron has spent the last 3 years partnering with mid-market and enterprise customers to help them find value and be successful.

In this week’s episode, we’re changing things up a bit. Accord co-founder & CPO Ryan Rich interviews our host (and his brother) Ross about the key takeaways, lessons, and advice from our guests throughout Season One: Founder’s Journey. Get the full roundup of founder advice on our blog: https://inaccord.com/from-vendorship-to-partnership/season-1-founders-journey-episode-13-season-recap

In the final founder interview of Season 1, Ross talks to Joe Garafalo, COO & Co-Founder of Mosaic! Listen for insights on Joe's founding story about building Mosaic, and his advice to his past self. About Joe: Joe is Co-Founder and COO of Mosaic, a software startup building the first Strategic Finance Platform. He began his career in the Big 4 with KPMG and went on to hold multiple leadership positions in finance at Palantir, Axoni, and Barkbox before founding Mosaic. Outside of work, Joe enjoys traveling, learning about capital markets and cryptocurrency, playing poker, and spending time with family and his dog, Coconut.

In this week’s episode of Founder’s Journey, Ross talks to Lauren Dai, COO & Co-Founder of Cocoon!  After spending 4+ years building the growth organization at Stripe, Lauren started Cocoon to help simplify the complicated financial problem of managing employee leave: from compliance & guidance to claims & payroll.  Learn about Lauren’s journey building Cocoon, including defining the problem to solve, winning their first 10 customers, and her relationship with co-founders Amber Feng & Mahima Chawla.  About Lauren:  Lauren is the COO & co-founder of Cocoon, the platform that makes managing employee leave instant, simple, and big-hearted for HR teams and employees alike. With Cocoon, employees can design their leave plan in private, notify HR when they’re ready, and rest easy knowing that all their paperwork will be submitted for them. Employers don’t have to lift a finger when it comes to compliance, claims, or payroll calculations. Prior to starting Cocoon, Lauren was integral to building the growth organization at Stripe.

In this week’s episode of the From Vendorship to Partnership podcast, Ross talks to Tyler Gaffney, CEO of ZenHub. Tyler has spent more than a decade in and around startups, including running a consultancy to help early stage businesses figure out how to go to market. One of his clients was Axiom Zen, which had started ZenHub as an internal tool initially, but it ended up gaining a lot of organic traction and became its own business. Tyler was drawn to ZenHub’s exciting growth and leadership team, and was invited to join full-time as CEO about three years ago. Listen to the full episode to hear about Tyler’s learnings from leading ZenHub and his advice to other founders, including paying attention to product-market fit over time, not falling into the trap of what you know best, and being willing to ask the tough questions. About Tyler and ZenHub: Tyler Gaffney is the CEO of ZenHub, Founder of Entrepid Partners, and former VP of Sales at WePay. ZenHub enables software teams at startups and scaleups to build better code, faster by providing a developer-friendly productivity management platform. ZenHub is the leading team productivity management suite in GitHub and is trusted by teams at over 6,900 companies and open source projects to help them work together to ship great code.