Team

Daniel
Portillo

COFOUNDER

Phin
Barnes

COFOUNDER

Megan
Zengerle

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Anthony
Kline

INVESTMENTS

Bret
Reckard

TALENT

Dan
Pupius

Chief Technology Officer

Rifki
Zable

Chief Financial Officer

Alec
Flett

ENGINEERING

Allison
Light

GTM

Ben
Cmejla

INVESTMENTS

Breanna
Manore

Operations

Danny
Oliveri

GTM

David
Watson

ENGINEERING

Doug
Hanna

GTM

Graham
Carney

INVESTMENTS

Jason
Lohrentz

TALENT

Jose
Guardado

TALENT

Josh
Hernández

TALENT

Justin
Rosenthal

ENGINEERING

Kristopher
Kostelecky

TALENT + GTM

Marcus
Gosling

PRODUCT

Marie
Vail Guercio

OPERATIONS

Mikey
Wakerly

ENGINEERING

Nicole
Dumitrescu

OPERATIONS

Ross
Wiethoff

GTM

From building out sales at Square and Compass, Ross deeply gets people and growth opportunities.

Ross has been in sales his entire career. He’s worked in almost every role across the field, from Sales Development to VP of Sales. For him, that experience has helped him understand how to maximize customer satisfaction while also optimizing sales processes.

Portfolio companies

Previous experience

Square (Block)

Ross worked alongside the global head of sales to launch the sales team and saw it grow to over 75 employees and several sales functions in its first year. From there, Ross became the go-to person for launching “new startups” within Square’s sales organization. He developed Square’s first outbound sales process and grew revenue from $0 to $45 million in two years while leading a team of over 30 people. He also launched Square’s first e-commerce, field sales, and outbound sales teams, implementing a strategy that is still in effect at the company today.

Compass

Ross helped build the foundation for Compass’s inside sales team, which included sales strategy and processes. While there, he developed an outbound lead generation strategy and led a team of 35 across the US.

For Ross, the work he enjoys most as a builder is when he gets to make an impact at a critical stage in a company’s lifecycle.

Highlights

Identifying growth opportunities

Ross takes a lot of time upfront to understand the companies he partners with, as well as the industry they’re in. After identifying what’s working and not working, he excels at identifying how to test different opportunities in the market and gain critical insights that help inform lead generation strategies.

Understanding people

Ross prioritizes talking with prospective and current customers in order to learn and understand how to make an impact on their business. As a result, he’s gained deep experience in creating go-to-market strategies and sales processes across a huge amount of products, segments, and verticals.

Stas
Baranov

ENGINEERING

Taylor
Majewski

EDITORIAL + COMMS

Ted
Mao

ENGINEERING