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20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Ron Gabrisko is the Chief Revenue Officer at Databricks, where he joined in 2016. Under his leadership, Databricks has scaled from $0 to $3.7BN annualized revenue. He has grown the sales team from 0 to over 1,000 globally, leading expansion into enterprise, government, and international markets. Ron previously held senior sales roles at Cloudera and IBM, bringing deep experience in data and AI infrastructure. His tenure at Databricks has been defined by hypergrowth, multi-product adoption, and world-class GTM execution.
Agenda for Today:
– The Databricks Origin Story: Ali, Ben Horowitz & 7 PhDs
– Ali vs JPMorgan: Turning Down $10M to Stay Cloud-First
– Prospecting Day: How Ron Scaled the GTM Culture
– Why Databricks' Pricing Model Was Its Secret Weapon
– Enterprise vs SMB: The Risky Bet That Paid Off
– From $2M to $13M ARR: How Ron Built the First Sales Engine
– Can AI Replace Salespeople? Ron's Brutally Honest Take
– How to Get Your First Million-Dollar Rep (and Keep Them)
– The Culture Secret Behind Scaling to 5,000 Sales Reps
– Why Databricks Waited Until $500M ARR to Go International
– What Makes a Great Sales Meeting? Ron's Gold Standard
– The Snowflake Wars: Why Ron Says Databricks Is 5 Years Ahead
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