We heard your feedback that you wanted more guests and behind the scenes stuff, so here you go!

Some quick bullets on InVision:

• Their revenue is more than doubling year-over-year in growth.
• They have raised about $135 million since starting the company in 2011.
• InVision is used by over 2 million people worldwide.
• The InVision sales and customer success team today is north of 64 people with account executives, sales development reps, customer success staff, and more stretching from Hawaii to Boston.
• They also serve more than 1,500 enterprise customers.

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#52 InVision SVP of Sales Ryan Burke was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Meetings.

In the early days of a company, meetings are rare.

But then before you know it, 15 people turn into 30 people — and you’re spending more of your time in meetings than you were before and getting nothing done.

That’s exactly what has happened to us at Drift over the last few months (going from 15 to 30).

And before we get to the point where people are spending more time in meetings than actually making things, David shared a memo with the team on our company wiki titled “Meetings at Drift.”

So that’s what we’re talking about on this episode of Seeking Wisdom — how we deal with meetings, and the guardrails we use for meetings at Drift.

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#51: How To Run A Meeting was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Looking back on 2016 and the first year of Seeking Wisdom (including the impact the podcast has had on our business at Drift).

We thought we’d end 2016 and kickoff 2017 by going back through some of the key lessons from the past year, including:

- How a modern product team should work.

- How to become a learning machine.

- The power of learning from others.

- Why you need role models.

- Innovation, not invention.

- The secret to running effective 1:1 meetings.

- The art of managing up.

- Advice for recent grads/millenials: you need to carry the water.

Here’s a link to the Simon Sinek video David mention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU

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Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

Looking back on 2016 and the first year of Seeking Wisdom (including the impact the podcast has had on our business at Drift).

We thought we’d end 2016 and kickoff 2017 by going back through some of the key lessons from the past year, including:

- How a modern product team should work.

- How to become a learning machine.

- The power of learning from others.

- Why you need role models.

- Innovation, not invention.

- The secret to running effective 1:1 meetings.

- The art of managing up.

- Advice for recent grads/millenials: you need to carry the water.

Here’s a link to the Simon Sinek video David mention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU

Two Ways To Support The Show

1. Subscribe.

2. Leave us a five-star review. Here’s how: bit.ly/5-Stars-Only

Connect With Us

Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio.

Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

#50: What We Learned Starting This Podcast In 2016 was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Self doubt is something that we all struggle with every day. So that’s what we’re talking about on this episode of Seeking Wisdom.

How to overcome self doubt (and how to use haters to your advantage).

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Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio.

Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

#49: How To Overcome Self Doubt was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Everyone is in planning mode for 2017, so we thought it would be good to sit down and talk about goals.

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Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

48: Goals was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

You hear it all the time: startups are all about the people.

But there’s one topic that people don’t talk about a lot: bringing on the *right* people at the *right* team.

So that’s what we’re talking about today — when to bring on a management team at a startup, and as an individual, progressing your career at a startup.

From David:

“One of the top hiring mistakes that people make is that they are usually good at screening people for culture fit and skill set — but they aren’t good at making sure that person matches the current stage of the company.”

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Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio.

Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

#47: Management & Career Growth was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We’re always asking for reviews on iTunes.

If you’ve listened to at least one episode of Seeking Wisdom, you’ve probably heard David Cancel ask nicely for a review 😊.

And the reason that we (and basically every other podcast host) ask for reviews is that they help tell iTunes that this podcast matters.

It’s kind of like Yelp, Airbnb, or Amazon.

When you’re searching for a place to eat, an apartment to rent, or buying a new book — you want to see the reviews. What do other people think?

And it’s so easy to leave a review if you love our podcast:

Just pull out your phone and open up the podcast app and then search for Seeking Wisdom:

That will bring up a few recent episodes of our show. Then just click on the show under Podcasts:

Then click on Reviews:

And then click Write a Review and tell us how you feel about the show:

And just remember.

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How To Leave A Review On iTunes was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Mark Roberge came by Drift earlier in the month to hang out and have lunch with our team — so we figured we would record it and turn it into a conversation for Seeking Wisdom.

Mark helped HubSpot grow basically from day one (as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Services and then Chief Revenue Officer) and now spends his time as a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School.

Follow Mark on Twitter twitter.com/markroberge

Connect With Us:

Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio.

Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

#46: Lunch With Mark Roberge was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Some quick thoughts on our approach to content marketing at Drift.

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Learn more about Drift at Drift.com

#45: Our Approach To Content Marketing was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Prioritization. Focus. Whatever you want to call it. Figuring out where to spend your time can be one of the hardest parts of working at a startup.

David shares his approach to prioritization and why it might be time to accept that you will have more than one priority at a time.

Two resources we mention on this episode:

Stephen Covey’s “Big Rocks” http://bit.ly/2fV188c

The One Thing (one of our favorite books): http://amzn.to/2eXrB0q

Connect With Us:

Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio.

Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

44: How To Prioritize was originally published in Seeking Wisdom (by Drift) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.