Robert Brooks Iv
Founding Team & VP, Revenue at Lambda
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Team & VP, Revenue
2018 - Current
100% focused on empowering the leaders of Lambda’s Sales, Marketing & Customer Success Orgs. Lambda is a team of Machine Learning Engineers building the #1 computing platform for training Neural Networks. Whether ML teams train in a Private or Public Cloud, Lambda offers a plug-and-play experience complete with the latest GPUs, an ML Software Stack, Support from ML Engineers, Colocation and ML Consulting. Our customers include Sony, Disney Research, Pfizer, Raytheon, MIT, Harvard, and the Department of Defense. lambdalabs.com Join our team: https://lambdalabs.com/careers
Advisor/Angel
2020
Advising & investing in seed stage deeptech startups: uptothewrite.com Writing for technical founders: uptothewrite.substack.com
Head of Sales
2016 - 2018
Tempo raised $75M in venture funding and went public on NASDAQ: https://www.tempoautomation.com/news/tempo-ace-merger/ Tempo builds software to automate robots. I came to work every day inspired by the customers we served - companies building cutting-edge robotics, satellites, rockets, self-driving cars, internet of things, drones, and much more. - First Sales Hire - Developed GTM Strategy focused on Enterprise/Fortune 500 Sales - Grew company revenue 500%+ in the first year - Closed & managed $X,000,000 enterprise partnerships - Built sales dashboards & sales tech stack - Built BDR & AE team, metrics & strategy - Built & executed sales hiring, onboarding processes & training material - Report to Founder/VP of Product
Tempo Automation is transforming the way companies innovate and bring new electronic products to market.
Raised $353,600,000.00 from Point72 Ventures, Ace Equity Partners, Firsthand Technology Value Fund and Lux Capital.
Sales Team Lead
2012 - 2016
Stack Overflow raised $68M in venture funding and was acquired for $1.8 Billion in 2021: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosus-acquires-stack-overflow Stack Overflow is the largest online community of software developers in the world. I partnered with startups & Fortune 500 companies to promote what they were building with software & how they recruited on Stack Overflow. Quick personal stats: - Closed the largest New Business deal in the history of the company - Lead #1 team on West Coast in 2013 & 2014, 8-12 AEs, Player/Coach - Finished as a top 10 sales executive in 2014 & 2015 - Promoted 4x in under 4 years
Stack Overflow is a platform for developers and programmers to share knowledge and solve coding challenges.
Raised $153,000,000.00 from Times Bridge, Times Bridge, Spark Capital, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, GIC and Silver Lake Waterman.
Registered Stock Broker
2010 - 2012
Series 7 & 63 certified. Advanced Broker: Technical Analysis & Options Trading. In the 95th percentile for lead conversions throughout the entire company. Placed on the outbound portfolio consolidation team to work with high-net-worth clientele ($10M+) and bring assets into Schwab.
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