Guest: Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness
Cisco bought Jyoti Bansal’s first company AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, making him a very wealthy man. But after two African safaris, a week of Michelin-starred meals in Tokyo, and more adventures all around the world, he realized that spending his money didn’t truly make him happy. After some soul-searching, he realized what he really enjoyed: “I liked to build companies. That is my craft ... If someone enjoys playing gold for six hours, I would enjoy working on a startup for six hours.”
In this episode, Jyoti and Joubin discuss the evolution of Grit, Carlos Delatorre, Tom Mendoza, Glean, growing up in India, traveling the world, three-star restaurants, soul-searching, automating gruntwork, paying for nice hotels, red-eye flights, product-market fit, Jeff Bezos, the “three-layered cake,” Frank Slootman, raising the bar for distribution, technical debt, structural efficiency, and taking pride in your work.
In this episode, we cover:
Links:
COO of LinkedIn, Dan Shapero: Discussing Go to Market Leadership
B2B General Manager of Calm, Jim Herbold: Describing ‘Unicorn Meat’
VP and GM at Shopify, Loren Padelford: Breaking the Rules in Sales
SVP Sales Modern Health, Hannah Willson: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health in Sales
Chief Sales Officer at Brex, Sam Blond: Recruiting Talent
CRO Cockroach Labs, Jeff Miller: Building an Effective Open Source Go to Market Strategy
VP Sales at Mixpanel, Meka Asonye: Exploring Analytics, High Velocity Sales, and Stigmas
CRO CircleCI, Jane Kim: Leading with Vulnerability and Making Mistakes
CRO TripActions, Carlos Delatorre: The Science of Sales
CRO Obsidian Security, Bob Kruse: Building a Winning Sales Culture
VP of Sales at Palo Alto Networks, Jeff StClair : Discovering, Recruiting, and Coaching Sales Talent
Chief Sales and Success Officer at Slack, Bob Frati: Exploring Slack’s Key Growth Levers and Competition
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