The world of operations isn’t always glamorous, but it’s the work that can make or break a company. Join Sean Lane every other Friday as he goes under the hood of how hypergrowth companies operate. Leave each episode with the operational tactics you need to scale growth and drive results at your company.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 21 hours 57 minutes
episode 108: Navigating from Start-up to Scale-up with LinkSquares' Tim Parilla
One of the most interesting inflection points in a company’s evolution is when it becomes abundantly clear to everyone on the team that it’s time to transition from scrappy start-up to scale-up.
Our guest on this episode, Tim Parilla, also loves this inflection point, and as you’ll soon see from our conversation, he thrives in it. Tim is the Chief Legal Officer at LinkSquares, the contract lifecycle management platform valued at over $800M...
episode 107: How AI is Driving The Shift from Best of Breed to All-in-One Solutions with Recorded Future CMO Tom Wentworth
When we started this show, we knew we wanted it to be unabashedly for operators, with expert guests sharing lessons from those who had been there, done that. But this episode's guest made us realize that the show can not only be the place to reflect on the hard-earned lessons our guests have to share, but we can also be the place where operators can come to brainstorm, to debate, and to hypothesize about what’s to come.
That guest is Tom Wentworth...
episode 106: An Operator's Guide to Filling Your Cup with Jacki Leahy
It’s really quite refreshing when you see people being vulnerable about their own struggles in a professional environment. We all try to be so polished and put together all the time, especially as Operators, where our job is literally to have everything put together...
episode 105: Why the Future of Work Should Optimize for Teams with Cisco Meraki COO Denise Thomas
When you stop and think about it, it’s pretty crazy that our entire mindset around work has been completely challenged in just a few short years.
And now, it looks like we find ourselves again in a debate about the future of work. Do we go back to offices? Are remote or hybrid teams less effective? Will employees revolt if companies try?
Luckily, to answer these difficult questions, we have Denise Thomas, COO of Cisco Meraki...
episode 104: Finding the Right Consulting Resources for Your Most Important Projects with FoundHQ's Max Maeder
Most Ops teams are notoriously strapped for resources. We scrape and we claw to build our teams, and design them to make meaningful impacts on our organization. But sometimes we just don’t have the resources internally to get some of our projects done, and done well.
And that’s when Operators will typically turn their attention to the fragmented, overwhelming, and slightly intimidating world of operations consultants...
episode 103: How to Escape your Company's Wild West with CaptivateIQ's Johnathan Warren
Many growing companies go through a phase where things are loose, messy, and undefined. This episode's guest, Johnathan Warren, affectionately refers to this phase of a company’s growth as “the wild west.”
Johnathan is the Head of Revenue Operations at CaptivateIQ. Having built out the Ops functions at other startups like Spiff and KeyedIn, Jonathan is now on his third ride through and out of the wild west...
episode 102: The RevOps Definition That Most People Get Wrong
In January 2023, LinkedIn released its list of the 25 fastest-growing job titles in the US. The #1 job on that list? Head of Revenue Operations.
If you’re listening to this show, that’s probably exciting news to you. But here’s the thing: roles dubbed as Revenue Operations can be foggy, amorphous blobs, with one company’s job description different from the next.
That’s what we’re here to clarify and explore in this episode...
episode 101: Why Discipline Makes You a Better Operator with AudioEye's Rupert Dallas
Start-ups often preach speed over execution. And it makes sense: “Take the disciplined, thoughtful approach” doesn’t really pop off the wall next to your ping pong table.
But that's also because the disciplined approach is hard. Moving fast is easier.
On this episode, our guest Rupert Dallas is someone whose discipline I really admire...
episode 100: Top 10 Lessons From 100 Episodes Of Operations
100 episodes of Operations! We are so grateful for the brilliant Operators who have been so generous with their time and their lessons on this show.After 100 episodes, we thought it was only fitting to look back at the top 10 lessons we’ve taken away from