Inside the Ohana: The Value of Authentic Leadership with Sarah Patterson, CMO at Samsara
- Author
- Sarah Patterson, Dan Darcy, Qualified, Samsara
- Published
- Tue 29 Mar 2022
- Episode Link
- https://inside-the-ohana.simplecast.com/episodes/inside-the-ohana-the-value-of-authentic-leadership-Vx1gNh_U
Sarah Patterson, CMO of Samsara, shares valuable lessons learned at Salesforce which lead her to achieve a career goal: taking a company public as CMO. Learn about the challenges Sarah faced and overcame while part of the Ohana, and how these experiences set Sarah up to lead marketing at a company with a $12B valuation, and much more.
Quotes
“Through my time at Salesforce, I had been prepping... What type of opportunity and challenge do I want to tackle next? I always tell this to folks: look for the job descriptions of the job you want to have next in 4-5 years down the road and think through what are the skills that you need to add to your tool belt. That's what I was doing. I was growing all of the skills to be a well-rounded marketer.”
Episode Timestamps:
*(1:43) - Ohana Origins
*(3:40) - Sarah’s first major challenge at Salesforce
*(5:33) - Insights from building the service cloud team
*(12:18) - Working on Chatter.com Superbowl Ad
*(15:58) - What’s Cooking
*(18:14) - Product vs. platform positioning
*(21:40) - Applying past lessons from Salesforce to current problems
*(24:47) - Future Forecast
*(25:55) - Advice for aspiring CMOs
*(26:59) - Lightning Round
Sponsor
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