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Hosted by Jess Lin · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 15 episodes
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After a decade of investing in enterprise software, I've noticed something fascinating: While everyone talks about becoming a founder someday, almost no one discusses the tactical skills you need to master before making that leap. That's why I'm launching "The Drafting Table" – a podcast and content series dedicated to uncovering the tactical skills that separate successful operators and founders from those stuck in the dreaming phase.
Jess Lin hosts The Drafting Table, a business show with 15 episodes published.
Product-led growth (PLG) isn’t just a switch you flip, it’s a strategy that only works when layered with thoughtful go-to-market. David Dorman VP Growth / Self-Service at Grafana Labs, joins The Drafting Table to share w
How do you know if your idea is strong enough to build a company? When is the right time to raise funding, or hire your first employee? And what actually matters most at the seed stage? In this episode of The Drafting Ta
What does it really take to build a fast-growing healthtech startup in one of the most complex industries in the world? In this episode of The Drafting Table, Jessica Lin sits down with Akash Magoon (Co-founder & CEO of
Can a startup go straight to enterprise and survive? Shensi Ding, Co-Founder at Merge, shares how they scaled from zero to 25,000+ customers by starting enterprise-first, rebuilding their go-to-market team, and why found
It’s easy to keep saying yes to new features. It’s a lot harder to say no, especially when the customer is dangling a big contract. In this episode of The Drafting Table, Danielle Leong (CTO at FireHydrant and former eng
Most founders think they’ve hit product-market fit. Kevin Wang wants you to prove it. As Chief Product Officer at Braze (NYSE: BRZE), Kevin joined the team in 2012 as an early engineer and helped build the company from n
What does it really take to raise and run a venture fund from scratch? In this special episode of The Drafting Table, Work-Bench co-founders Jessica Lin and Jon Lehr pull back the curtain on their 12-year journey buildin
Most founders think if they build a great product, the pipeline will magically appear. It won’t. In this episode of The Drafting Table, Alex Rosemblat (Advisor and Former CMO at Datadog) joins us for a tactical breakdown
Most founders don’t realize it, but they could be wasting thousands of dollars attending conferences — and getting very little pipeline to show for it. In this episode of The Drafting Table, Amy Holtzman (CMO at CHEQ and
Most founders think the sale ends with a signed contract. But according to Rose Kozar, that’s just the beginning. In this episode of The Drafting Table, Rose Kozar—VP of Client Solutions at Courier Health—makes the case
In this episode of The Drafting Table, Jess sits down with her teammate, Work-Bench investor Daniel Chesley for a rare behind-the-scenes look at how early-stage VC decisions actually get made. If you’re a pre-seed or see
Most founders want to hire an SDR as soon as they’ve closed a few deals. Alexandra Kane (VP of Revenue at Chalk) says that’s a massive mistake. In this episode of The Drafting Table, we dive into the tactical truths no o
Most seed-stage enterprise software founders obsess over topline growth. But the smartest ones? They dig deeper. In this episode of The Drafting Table, Jessica Lin sits down with Michaela Lehr, seasoned CFO and startup f
Most SaaS founders get product launches wrong. They think it’s about blasting their features everywhere on Day 1—but the best launches don’t happen in just one day.In this episode of The Drafting Table, I sit down with N
Your startup’s biggest risk isn’t running out of money—it’s running out of alignment.In this episode of The Drafting Table, I sit down with David Politis, founder of BetterCloud, to unpack one of the most underrated yet
David Dorman
Grafana Labs
1 appearance on this show
Jessica Lin
Work-Bench
1 appearance on this show
Trey Holterman
Tennr
1 appearance on this show
Akash Magoon
Adonis
1 appearance on this show
Shensi Ding
Merge
1 appearance on this show
Danielle Leong
FireHydrant
1 appearance on this show
Kevin Wang
Braze
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Lehr
Work-Bench
1 appearance on this show
Amy Holtzman
CHEQ
1 appearance on this show
Rose Kozar
Courier Health
1 appearance on this show
Alexandra Kane
Chalk
1 appearance on this show
Natalie Marcotullio
Navattic
1 appearance on this show
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