What does it take to go from zero to your first enterprise customer? For Cresta, it meant their CEO and CTO becoming interns at Intuit—and their engineering team living in an Airbnb next to the call center they were trying to disrupt.
In this episode, Kyle talks with Alex Cramer, CRO of Cresta, about the unglamorous grind of cold-starting in enterprise, why today’s deals demand more consensus (and skill) than ever, and how to scale a team when every deal feels like a bespoke knife fight.
Plus, Alex’s hardest-won lessons—from equity pitfalls to why endurance separates good CROs from great ones.
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