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Eric Olden is the CEO of Strata Identity, an identity management company. Eric is a serial entrepreneur and visionary and has been transforming the way businesses navigate the complex world of cloud and hybrid security systems, having previously worked in a senior role at Oracle he is now leading one of the most innovative companies in the tech space. Eric joins Ryan to talk about digital identity, creating a new category in his industry and how he came to create the holy grail of identity management.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“It does for identity security what the m word did for compute”
“It’s really mission critical for some of the big enterprises because without it they’re stuck, they can’t move their applications to the cloud”
“You don’t have to convince us the cloud is where we want to be, the problem is getting there”
“Marketing and product-led growth are hand in hand, the intent is that we use the marketing effort to attract people and aware of the product so they can serve themselves”
“When we were doing product design we really mapped out the sales process and then made sure the experience and the product supported each thing”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
Strata.io/podcast
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Liam Patterson is the founder and CEO of Bidamic, a marketing tech platform that lets retailers unlock their full potential. Bidamic is the 4th company Liam has founded and he joins Ryan to talk all about his entrepreneurial journey and the amazing things he is doing in the e-commerce and marking space. Top topics include how AI is impacting business and how you can utilise it in yours, the power of outbound and Liam also reveals his single best strategy for growing a business.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“A lot of the companies we work with are easy to identify, they are on google shopping”
“We find it pretty powerful to get in front of them via outbound”
“Let’s embed and let's utilise existing AI tools”
“Conversational AI would be really cool”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Angelina Lawton is the founder and CEO of Sportsdigita. A trailblazer in the sports world, Angelina has been named one of the 30 most powerful women in sport by Forbes! Angelina talks to Ryan about how she has transformed the way that over 450 of the biggest brands in the world market and sell, from massive sports brands to Fortune 500 companies and reveals how they generate referrals systematically as well as the lows and highs of her business journey.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“Think PowerPoint but on steroids”
“Sports is a herd mentality”
“AI is on the horizon and we know it’s surrounding us and we’ve got to figure out what to do with it”
“We do think there is always going to be that human component, guiding the content”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelinalawton/
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Mike Montague is a fellow podcaster, author and the director of community at Sandler Training. He joins Ryan to talk about how he got started in marketing and his book as well as giving many online marketing tips for various platforms including LinkedIn and YouTube and also reveals the number one reason people don’t listen to your podcast!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“When I was young, so was the internet”
“There are things you can to do build your credibility but it’s not what you think”
“Everybody moves too fast, it’s the hard work you actually do that builds a business”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
Mike’s Book LinkedIn The Sandler Way
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Gil Allouche from Metadata joins Ryan in this episode. Gil is the founder and CEO of Metadata, he came from a systems engineering background and then went into marketing where he worked on automation and creating a product leading to 5 patents in his technology. Gil talks to Ryan about many topics surrounding AI and automation including how his company solves the age-old problem of pipeline and why we shouldn’t be frightened of AI and instead embrace it wherever we can in business.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“They will learn through experimentation what works and what doesn’t”
“I’m a software engineer I like to create things and build stuff and I experienced stuff from early on, I like to invent”
“It’s one of the big differentiators, no one has the technology we have”
“It’s a way of removing barriers to sale for your products”
“I’m not afraid at all of AI”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Alex Castro is the founder and CEO of M Corp. He is the creator of the REM score method and one of the best-selling authors in the AI space. Alex is uniquely placed to educate on AI having been in the space for over a decade and having a breadth of knowledge in Identifying how businesses can implement the world of AI. Alex talks to Ryan about how we can all utilise and integrate AI for use in day-to-day services and how we can push this further by using the web3 space and even creating NFTs.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“There’s a 12%-30% uptick in customer engagement when automation kicks in”
“Every 48 hours there is another version of AI being deployed”
“We don’t have any investors and we don’t have any debt”
“They began to dwindle down products that weren’t performing”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
In this episode, Ryan is joined by Drew D’Agostino of Crystal. Crystal is an emotional intelligence tool that leverages AI to create better conversations with clients, and prospects as well as internally with co-workers. Drew talks to Ryan about how he is approaching the business and what they are doing in the space including the journey to finding the perfect product-market fit and the uniqueness of building a SaaS tool that connects with people on an emotional level.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“When people have these differences between one another it can make communication very difficult”
“We’ve been building a 2 and a half-year-old business on top of an 8-year-old product”
“Top of funnel isn’t a problem for us, we really get a lot of inbound interest”
“If you ask 10 random people why they came to Crystal, they’ll generally give you 10 different answers”
“It’s deeply in our DNA, having a SaaS tool that connects with people on an emotional level”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewdagostino/
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Casey Ellis is the CEO of Bugcrowd, a platform that connects users with digital locksmiths/hackers to help solve their problems, they also offer task service management and security consulting. Casey has 18 years of experience in the security space and has supported every type of client from small start-ups to large national corporations. Casey and Ryan have an in-depth conversation around AI and Security and Casey also talks about Bugcrowd's interesting combination business model, talks about marketing virality and reveals why his company were a chosen partner by open AI to try and penetrate AI as an open-source programme.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“Cybersecurity is a human problem technology just makes it go faster”
“Don’t be valuable create value”
“When new stuff comes out, we get a phonecall”
“There’s a trust in us as an organisation”
“I wanna see the production of wealth actually being the product of something I’ve set out to solve”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyjohnellis/
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan is joined by two-time venture-backed entrepreneur and AI enthusiast Suman Kanuganti. Suman was also recently awarded Forbes 40 under 40 and is the co-founder of Personal AI. Personal AI is a unique and personal AI model to aid and communicate with one another. Suman talks to Ryan all about his vision for the company including why he chose the b2c market and to be venture-backed as well as the value he sees it bringing to everyday consumers now and in the future.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“We are about to serve everyday consumers”
“That education itself is a go-to-market strategy”
“It’s super simple and easy to understand”
“This is about investing in yourself”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Eric Daimler is the chair, CEO and co-founder of Conexus AI. He also sits on numerous boards and is a leading expert in the field of robotics and AI. He joins Ryan to talk about the revolutionary things Conexus are doing in the world of AI, how you can set up AI in your own company and how he thinks AI will create endless possibilities for humanity and the world we live in.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
“AI, robotics, learning algorithms can be thought of as a system”
“It’s not because of security, it’s because your systems suck, they don’t talk to one another”
“It’s super useful for everyday business and the operation of complex systems, especially when lives are at stake”
“We’re lucky to be the leaders in the expression of category theory for the integrity of the integration database”
Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?" Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
312-848-7443
www.ryanstaley.io
EPISODE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.
This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
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How do you grow like a VC-backed SAAS company without taking on investors? What are the secrets that SAAS CEOs have that the rest of us don't? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business, or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best SAAS Founders, CEOs, and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Gina Bianchini (Founder of Mighty Networks and prior Co-Founder with Marc Andreessen) and Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin). This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.
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