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Mike Winn

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
203 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Got given two weeks notice and we flew over and the rest is history.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Funny enough, I got married in the middle of the incubator program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

It was really awkward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Then I had to delay my honeymoon like three times, but finally got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

It was actually really interesting from a raising capital point of view because I had to raise money in three weeks before I went on my thrice, three times delayed honeymoon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Yeah, I can blame my wife.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Her name's Kerry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Yeah, I mean, I'm very lucky.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

She's been super supportive, even now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

She's been supportive from the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Obviously, I used to spend a lot of my money on RC helicopters, playing with drones before they were a thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Two jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

First, I started in sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

I was an account manager selling AdWords to big companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

So that was kind of my baptism into a little bit of marketing as well as sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

Useful skill for anyone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

And then after about 18 months of that, I moved to a team that actually built sales tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

I was a person that could sell and could code.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

And there was a team building tools for salespeople by salespeople in the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

And it was actually a really fun, exciting time building product, launching it to hundreds and thousands of people really, really quickly.