Hello and welcome back to the Collin Cadmus Podcast. Today I’m joined by Yuriy Zaremba. Yuriy is a corporate lawyer turned CEO and a 2x Y Combinator Alumni. He co-founded his first company AxDraft in 2017 which was acquired by Onit in 2020. He then co-founded AiSDR where he serves today as the CEO. AiSDR creates and sends personalized sales emails at scale and automatically engages with prospects who respond. Tools like AiSDR spark a lot of conversation today because on one hand they have the po...
Aug 25, 2024•51 min
Hello and welcome back to the Collin Cadmus Podcast. Today I’m joined by Howard Lerman. Howard went to Duke University where he founded his first company with two of his classmates, JustATip.com, which they sold for $150,000 in 2001 while still in college. After school Howard founded Yext in 2006. By 2016 the company had $89 million in revenue and in 2017 it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2022 Howard stepped away as CEO of Yext in order to focus on his newest project, Roam, where ...
Aug 18, 2024•59 min
Hello and welcome back to the Collin Cadmus Podcast. Today I’m joined by Jacco van der Kooij. Jacco is originally from the Netherlands. He started his career in 1994 at Philips Electronics as a Project Manager and then transitioned into sales. Since then he’s led sales for over 10 different companies, prior to starting his current company, Winning By Design, where they help B2B SaaS Companies design, build, and scale their sales efforts. Jacco’s voice in sales is respected globally as an author,...
Aug 12, 2024•58 min
Hello and welcome back to the Collin Cadmus Podcast. Today I’m joined by Kevin Dorsey. Kevin went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and started his sales career where he quickly rose from entry-level selling to high-ranking leadership roles at SnackNation, ServiceTitan, PatientPop, and Bench Accounting. He’s built sales teams from 0 to 150 reps and scaled revenue north of $100M ARR. Kevin believes in focusing on the person in salesperson and he shares his sales wisdom across social media, s...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 12 min
It's safe to say the average salesperson in 2023 is significantly better than the average salesperson of 10 years ago, yet the average quota attainment continues to decline. This is the result of an inflationary economic system that drove competitive recruitment efforts toward the promise of higher OTEs, which inevitably led to higher quotas, which eventually far outpaced any salesperson's ability to keep up. This means the "valuation narrative game" ultimately resulted in over-stressing talente...
Jun 12, 2023•19 min
Welcome back to the pod! In this first episode I take a short break from my usual personality of bubbly positivity to begin this new season on a serious note and set the pace for what's to come. The world has changed, the economy has changed, Silicon Valley has changed, and B2B SaaS has changed forever. Decades of mistakes have led to where we're at but valuable lessons are here to be learned. I'm voicing these sentiments because they need to be said, need not to be forgotten, and need to be the...
Jun 06, 2023•23 min
Antoinette is a survivor, author, and speaker. On August 19, 2013, Antoinette was working as a bookkeeper at an elementary school in Atlanta, severely depressed because her husband of 33 years had recently left. She, now, as a single mom, was faced with the daunting challenges of raising a son with multiple disabilities and a daughter in law school. Never did she think that she would become a hero saving roughly 1,000 lives, a best-selling author, an international celebrity, an expert on communi...
Mar 01, 2021•57 min•Ep. 10
Anna is one of the most successful east coast SaaS marketers of the last decade. She’s from MA, went to UMass Amherst, started her career as an Account Manager and Client Service Supervisor, but then she went to work for a company that would change the trajectory of her career forever, ZoomInfo. Anna started at ZoomInfo in 2012 as a Marketing Communications Manager and climbed the ladder for 8 years all the way up to VP of Marketing. She led ZoomInfo’s marketing through an enormous growth phase ...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 9
He’s been selling something to someone his entire life. He’s been teaching and coaching salespeople for almost 20 years. He’s the Founder and President of A Sales Guy Inc. and the Author of GAP Selling, but you know him best as Keenan. The man who needs only one name. This is his story. Sit back, relax, enjoy the episode, and thank you for listening, viewing, and subscribing. Available on: YouTube, Rumble, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
Mar 01, 2021•54 min•Ep. 8
Jason graduated from Harvard University and Berkeley Law, he started his career as a Corporate Counsel, and then transitioned into various technology leadership roles, eventually leading him to co-founding EchoSign which was later acquired by Adobe. Jason then founded SaaStr, a social community of over 500,000 SaaS founders & executives and over 3M content views each month. If you haven’t discovered it already, checkout SaaStr.com, it’s loaded with valuable content and resources for everyone...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 7
Brendon 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 for an estimated $400 million. After Echosign Brendon went on to be the VP Sales at Talkdesk, no...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 6
Trish is the Founder and CEO of the Bridge Group which she founded in 1998, and prior to that she spent her entire career in sales. Starting out in telemarketing, which is essentially an SDR today. Trish grew into becoming the Founder and CEO of one of the most well respected consultancies in the business and she's also the author of the Amazon best seller, The Sales Development Playbook. This is her story. Sit back, relax, enjoy the episode, and thank you for listening, viewing, and subscribing...
Mar 01, 2021•45 min•Ep. 5
Aaron Ross went to Palo Alto high school and Stanford University. He started his career in mergers and acquisitions, had a 2 year stint in product marketing, then became cofounder of eLease which shut down and liquidated after 2 years. He then joined Salesforce.com (now commonly known as Salesforce) where he spent what I would call “the 4 years that changed his life”. Aaron became a tremendous success at Salesforce, developing their outbound sales approach which he calls “cold calling 2.0”. This...
Mar 01, 2021•47 min•Ep. 4
She started her career as a sales intern, went on to become an account executive, spent some years recruiting, and eventually went out on her own and built Betts Recruiting, which is now is the leading recruitment firm for revenue generating, marketing and people operations roles. She has over 80 employees and revenue in the millions. This is her story. Sit back, relax, enjoy the episode, and thank you for listening, viewing, and subscribing. Available on: YouTube, Rumble, Spotify, and Apple Pod...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 3
One day he was modeling CK underwear to pay the bills, the next he dropped out of college to build the sales team at SeamlessWeb in NYC (Now Seamless Grubhub), then founded SinglePlatform (acquired for $100M), then founded GoodUncle (acquired again). He was the first startup CEO I had the privilege of working for at SinglePlatform, and I would not have had the sales career I've had if it weren't for that experience. His story is one of the best and most inspiring I've ever heard. So inspiring th...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 2
From Account Executive at Oracle to creating satire sales comedy on social media. Somehow finding time to create a TV show and grab his masters from Stanford. His name is Ross Pomerantz, but you know him better as Corporate Bro. This is his story. Sit back, relax, enjoy the episode, and thank you for listening, viewing, and subscribing. Available on: YouTube, Rumble, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1
