The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Lars Nilsson, fmr Cloudera Global VP of Sales, on a career full of learnings, mentorship, and gratitude.

Episode Outline

[01:25] The importance of mentorship and how to choose a mentor

[02:57] The second type of mentor

[04:56] Why you need to know how to ask for help and how asking for help will put you ahead

[08:20] Mentorship for underprivileged and underrepresented populations

[10:34] Prospecting and selling are two different skill sets

[14:54] How to use SalesSource

[17:20] Lars’s career, what he has learned, and his priorities now


Lars’ Inspirations

Dennis Lyandres

Sarah Brazier

Tom Reilly


Connect with Lars

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The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Episode outline:

00:34 What does Skilljar do?

01:56 How skills have evolved over time and how Sandi has evolved as an engineer leading a company as CEO

07:45 The moment Sandi decided to pull back and bring in leadership, sales and marketing

10:55 Can Sandi pack them to revenue or is it some other qualitative factor?

16:58 What would Sandi avoid, when starting her next company?

21:37 What gets Sandi really jazzed about this next revenue sprint fresh capital in the bank

23:15 People that helped Sandi get to where she is today


Connect with Sandi

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Twitter

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