Investor/CEO/Author. Metamorph Partners-operator-led buyouts. Founding CEO MobileIron $0-$150M and IPO. Author - Survival to Thrival & Change or Be Changed.

San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2009
Unlocking growth is hard. Scaling growth to $100m is exhausting. Had a blast sharing *lessons learned* w/ the Work-Bench portfolio companies. Thank you @jerseejess and @fendien for the invitation. Content of talk below 👇
We recapped our #LFGNYC2022 keynote @BobTinker on the “3 Acts of Growth," a tactical breakdown on how to supercharge a GTM engine from $1M➡️$100M🚀 💻 Survive to PMF 🚀 Find GTM fit 🤓 Win adjacencies & unlearn old habits His top takeaways & keynote👇 work-bench.com/post/3-acts-o…
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We recapped our #LFGNYC2022 keynote @BobTinker on the “3 Acts of Growth," a tactical breakdown on how to supercharge a GTM engine from $1M➡️$100M🚀 💻 Survive to PMF 🚀 Find GTM fit 🤓 Win adjacencies & unlearn old habits His top takeaways & keynote👇 work-bench.com/post/3-acts-o…
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Cutting Edge + Much Needed. Formally verified secured software base---from academic dream to commercial & opensource reality. Instead of SW infra built on sand, SW can safely be run on BedRock. Bravo team BedRock.
BedRock Systems is proud to announce the launch of two new products! To make safety and security a verified reality we launch BedRock HyperVisor™ (BHV™) and BedRock Active Security™. bedrocksystems.com/bedrock-s…
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Excellent write-up on finding Go-To-Market Fit to unlock growth. Well done @pearvc. #GTMFit #Gotomarketfit
The difference between building a company and building a product is finding go-to-market fit. @BobTinker walks our Accelerator founders through his "surfing" framework: bit.ly/3aEH8R7
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Thoughtful post from @ibscribe . "GTM Fit is a game changer" for SaaS repeatability. And, "Every company is a series of big/small loops". Very true.
🧵wrote a post outlining the playbook for a consumerized enterprise product with horizontal SaaS distribution, and it had a bunch of underlying assumptions, known unknowns, and implicit trends that I’m still mulling over runthebusiness.substack.com/…
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Good list of sources from @blakethorne on product-led growth. Plus finding Go-to-market Fit.
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Thank you, Rita. Great discussion about the personal journey as a 1st time CEO. #changeorbechanged #survivaltothrival
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Thank you Tae Hea. We went thru 08 together. Its the real world battlescars (vs pithy platitudes) that we needed then and now.
My Survival to Thrival co-author @BobTinker, was on a @Work_Bench webinar with @jerseejess talking about how he launched MobileIron at the height of the 08 financial crisis and went on to grow its revenue to over $150M. It's worth a watch! youtube.com/watch?v=hupOQ3K4…
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Thank you April! We are all in this together. Honored that CoBC meant something to you. Credit also goes to the 10+ startup leaders who also contributed their stories of success, failure--and mostly importantly: *UN-learning*. #changeorbechanged amzn.to/2OiJZ8l
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Thank you @dcunni for the kind words about "Letter to myself as a 1st time CEO". Entreprenurs are in it together. Surprising Epilogue to the talk: it turned into two books
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Reading Survival to Thrival on page 92: “Takeaway advice: never let a good crisis go go waste” - brilliant! bookmarked @S2Thrival @BobTinker @taeheanahm
Book2 "Change or Be Changed" is officially released..on shelves now! Tackles the silent struggle for entrepreneurs--how to keep up with your company as it grows? Theme is Un-Learning. Stories of success/failure from 12+ entrepreneurs. Check it out! amzn.to/2xKKu2e
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Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup - Book 2: Change or Be C... amazon.com/dp/1684017475/ref… via @amazon
Check out what was on my front porch this am.  Our 2nd book "Change or Be Changed" is shipping from Amazon! Somehow feels so much more real when it shows up in a brown box. More here: amazon.com/dp/1684017475/ref…
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This time with the link to Amazon! amazon.com/Survival-Thrival-…
Exactly 1wk before my 2nd book, Change or Be Changed, is published.We tackle the silent struggle for entrepreneurs...how to keep up w/ your company as it grows? Pre-orders open! Ships Jul9.Thank you to my coauthor @taeheanahm. #startups #entrepreneurs #survivaltothrival #newbooks
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Exactly a week today before my second book, with co-author @BobTinker is published. Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup: Change or Be Changed is out on July 9th. Pre-orders are open! amazon.com/Survival-Thrival-… #startups #entrepreneurs #survivaltothrival #newbook
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Exactly 1wk before my 2nd book, Change or Be Changed, is published.We tackle the silent struggle for entrepreneurs...how to keep up w/ your company as it grows? Pre-orders open! Ships Jul9.Thank you to my coauthor @taeheanahm. #startups #entrepreneurs #survivaltothrival #newbooks
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Great topic for entrepreneurs. Do join us.
Real talk: landing Fortune 500 enterprise customers in a scalable/repeatable way seems more challenging than ever. 🤨Let us help! Join our GTM Summit (June 5th in SF), featuring @ytechdata, @jfbuss, @BobTinker, @eades50 & more. Apply now: gtmrealtalk.splashthat.com/ #WBenterpriseGTM
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Only 3d until S2T Summit! Discuss silent struggle among entrepreneurs--*how not to get fired as your startup starts to thrive?*. The key: UNLEARNING what used to work. Startup leaders please join me & co-author @taeheanahm. Thu May 23 5pm in SF. bit.ly/2YBs3IJ