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As I learned more about the cultur israel business email list e at Sprout and the amazing product they had built, I started to see the same incredible attributes that I had witnessed in the early days of Salesforce. A company that aimed to be the best place to be an employee and best place to be a customer, a belief that the best salesperson was the product itself, a bold vision to revolutionize their respective industries while creating a new category, and an enormous set of customer needs that were not properly being served.

It was clear to me that I would always regret not joining the Sprout team. So I made the move.

In the months and years that followed, Justyn and I partnered to scale Sprout from a startup with less than $30 million in annual revenue to a publicly traded company exceeding $385 million. We achieved that by fostering a high-performance culture, with the #1 best product in software and an outstanding team.

Over the last eight years, Justyn has been generous with opportunities and I have been able to support him with fundraising, acquisitions, executive recruiting, board recruiting, an IPO, 19 earnings calls and so much more! Our complementary strengths empowered us to get here, and will propel us as we move forward.

The most critical thing I learned during my time as Sprout’s President was the importance of focus. Focus is what has gotten us to where we are today, and it’s an area where many of our competitors have faltered. Since the beginning, Sprout has stayed laser focused on social media and the opportunities it presents to every brand and industry. Social and social insights can catapult businesses to the top of their field, and Sprout is the partner they need to harness the power of it.