Sam Blond
Founder of Stealth Startup
Miami, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, CEO
2024 - Current
Partner
2022 - 2024
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building revolutionary technologies.
CRO
2018 - 2022
Brex Venture Debt is designed for early-stage, venture-backed technology companies.
Founder and CEO
2016 - 2018
I work with growth stage technology companies on building, scaling, and optimizing their sales organizations to achieve revenue targets. Areas of focus include: Defining the appropriate growth strategy Recruiting the team at all levels (from SDR to VP of Sales) Increasing win rates Decreasing cycle times Optimizing operational processes Implementing sales productivity systems And ultimately dramatically increasing revenue Please message me if you would like to discuss my services in greater detail.
VP Sales
2013 - 2016
Zenefits manages your benefits, payroll, and HR – so you don’t have to. No more paperwork. No more headaches. It's all done online and completely paperless. I joined Zenefits as the VP of Sales when there were 18 employees, 2 sales reps, and <1M in ARR. Over the 2.5 years I was there the company grew to 1800 employees, 600 employees in the sales org, and 70M in ARR. Zenefits is considered the fastest growing SaaS business ever from a revenue perspective.
Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Raised $584,100,000.00 from TriplePoint Ventures and Unanimous Capital.
Director of Sales
2012 - 2013
EchoSign is now the biggest e-signature provider in the world and the fastest growing business unit within Adobe. As the Director of Sales I manage Sales Managers, Field/Territory Account Executives, and Inside Account Executives.
Sales Manager
2011 - 2012
After the Adobe acquisition of Echosign I became the first Echosign Sales Manager overseeing the San Francisco Adobe Echosign office. The San Francisco team (made up of 10 Account Executives and Strategic Account Reps) is the highest producing sales team at Echosign consistently exceeding expectations and quota.
Strategic Accounts Sales
2009 - 2011
Continued to be the highest producing sales rep closing deals with many F500 organizations including: Oracle, Nike, Standard & Poor's, Aetna, Cigna, Procter and Gamble, Nationwide Insurance, United HealthGroup, Bristol-Myers, First Data, and many more. In July 2011 Echosign was acquired by Adobe. Shortly after I earned a promotion to become the first sales manager at Adobe Echosign.
Account Executive
2008 - 2009
Consistently the #1 producer out of all other AE's in the organization. At the end of 2009 I earned a promotion to be in charge of strategic (F500) accounts at Echosign.
Adobe Fund for Design,a $10m fund that supports emerging companies to build products and services