A podcast about startups and their journeys moving up-market to serve enterprise customers.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Cockroach Labs Co-Founder and CEO Spencer Kimball discuss the importance of execution over ideas, the need for exploratory sales in early GTM teams, and leveraging technical content to target developers.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and HashiCorp Co-Founder and CTO Armon Dadgar discuss open core strategy, the challenges surrounding cloud-based product adoption for traditional enterprise, and the evolution of enterprise commercial structure.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and former CRO at Segment Joe Morrissey discuss how to layer in an outbound sales motion on-top of a self-serve motion for developer products, the advantages of leveraging an early sales team in product development, and usage-based vs. pre-bought consumption pricing.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Flatfile CEO and David Boskovic discuss how to foster the developer champion, the critical role they play in winning enterprise deals and how building “hero features” changes the enterprise buying cycle.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and former Github VP of Worldwide Sales Paul St. John cover how the Github sales team lead the open source software to enterprise sales. They also talk about how social coding changes workflows for the better, and how a sales team can be instrumental in driving product market fit.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and former Stripe COO and author of 'Scaling People' Claire Hughes Johnson cover how the early Stripe team navigated explosive growth, both from a product and people perspective.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Drata's CTO Daniel Marashlian talk about security, compliance, and startup growth.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Vinay Hiremath who's the Co-Founder, CTO, and VP of People at Loom, talk about Loom's journey.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and PlanetScale's CEO Sam Lambert discuss how to build an exceptional Developer experience that enables Software Development teams of all sizes. And how to do it in a way that a developer who is at the absolute bleeding edge, hottest startup can use the same technologies as someone who is at a hundred-year-old company that is revolutionizing their technology.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Netlify Co-founder, chief strategy, and creative officer Chris Bach cover balancing between building for developers and building for Enterprise customers.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Notion CRO Olivia Nottebohm cover how businesses can create engines of community-led growth for their products. They also talk about customer advisory boards, cultivating an ecosystem, and customer communication.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra cover what happens after a company finds product-market fit: getting Enterprise Ready. They also talk about when to hire a sales team, how to scale up high touch onboarding, and the philosophy driving a product that hundreds of thousands of people are on a waitlist for.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Ramp CEO Eric Glyman cover how to choose the right customers to serve. They also talk about organizational speed, why sales and support need to stay connected, and how Ramp expanded from corporate cards into a financial automation platform.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Slack VP Enterprise Product Ilan Frank cover Slack’s multi-year journey to get Enterprise Ready. They talk about building out the enterprise product roadmap, how Slack set up its customer advisory board, and Slack’s enterprise team structure.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Webflow CTO Bryant Chou cover an enterprise go-to-market strategy for product-led growth SaaS companies. They also talk about product-market fit, discerning between consumer customers and enterprise customers, and experimenting with the enterprise sales motion.
In this episode, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch cover how developer-focused businesses can get Enterprise Ready. They also talk about enterprise sales, customer success, and security.
In this podcast, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich and Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo cover how businesses can unlock new markets and accelerate deals with SOC 2 compliance. They also talk about bug bounties, security practices, and enterprise sales.
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WorkOS builds developer tools for quickly adding enterprise features to applications.
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