

Uncharted Podcast
Uncharted Podcast
The goal of Uncharted Podcast is to allow a space for some of the most brilliant individuals in the business to tell their stories. I’ve found that many of these great people got where they are by diving into the unknowns, or the uncharted.
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Jun 7, 2021 • 32min
Uncharted Podcast #86, The Importance of Honest Customer Discovery Before Starting a Business In a Crowded Market With Omri Mor
In this week's episode, we talk with the Co-founder & CEO at Routable, Omri Mor.
Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel, Omri learned to appreciate music, art, food and other sensory experiences. After selling his first company, he and his now co-founder got together to catch up… over some pita and hummus. They began swapping stories of problems they encountered in processing payments to their third parties – so many problems that they were both required to build their own. After taking some time validate a solution in the market, Omri set out to build Routable – a modern bill payments, payouts and invoicing system, enabling companies to speed up payment processing through a secure platform.
Connect with Omri Mor:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/omrimor
Connect with Robby Allen:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale), Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at www.indeed.com/scale) and Bambee (Get your HR Audit for free at Bambee.com/uncharted).

May 31, 2021 • 23min
Uncharted Podcast #85, The Value of Having a Co-Founder As Customer Zero With Armando Biondi and Gary Amaral
In this week's episode, we talk with the co-founders of Breadcrumbs.io, Armando Biondi and Gary Amaral
Breadcrumbs.io is a Revenue Acceleration Platform based on a co-dynamic lead scoring and routing engine living at the intersection of marketing and sales.
On today's show, we discuss how they came up with the idea for Breadcrumbs while focusing mostly on how they chose each other as co-founders, a challenge that many founders have, as well as some of their learnings going to market in a established market.
Connect with Gary and Armando on LinkedIn, as well as on their website, Breadcrumbs.io.
Connect with Armando Biondi:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/armandobiondi/
Connect with Gary Amaral:
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/garyamaral
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale), Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at www.indeed.com/scale) and Bambee (Get your HR Audit for free at Bambee.com/uncharted).

May 24, 2021 • 23min
Uncharted Podcast #84, The Parallels of Competitive Swimming & Startups, How to Keep Your Composure as a Founder, and How to Build a Profitable Partner Ecosystems w/ Bryn Jones, CEO of PartnerStack
Bryn Jones is the CEO and Co-Founder of PartnerStack (PartnerStack.com), the highest-rated and easiest-to-use partner platform that empowers your partners to sell more of your product. Since 2015, PartnerStack has helped companies integrate and grow hundreds of programs, onboarded 450,000+ partners, and launched their own partner program for affiliates, agencies and resellers.
Connect with Bryn and PartnerStack:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryn-jones/
https://www.partnerstack.com/
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
Connect with Robby Allen:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/

May 17, 2021 • 20min
Uncharted Podcast #83, The Immigrant Mindset And How to Prioritize Your Mental Health With Poya Osgouei, Briana Carter and Kevin Russell
Our very own, Poya Osgouei was recently on the "Be.Human" Podcast with Briana Carter and Kevin Russell. On this episode, we talk through Poya's experience escaping Iran and moving to the United States, as well as his recent experience with anxiety and how he is prioritizing his mental health.
Connect with Briana Carter:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/briana-carter/
Connect with Kevin Russell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinrussell2/
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale), Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at www.indeed.com/scale) and Bambee (Get your HR Audit for free at Bambee.com/uncharted).

May 11, 2021 • 17min
Uncharted Podcast #82, Stephen Cornwell, Importance of Community Involvement, Learnings of Going to Market In A Competitive Market And Why Relevance Is The Secret To An Effective Learning Program
Our guest this week is Steve Cornwell, Founder & CEO at Northpass, a learning platform that specializes in building custom platforms for external use cases such as customer education programs, partner programs and workforce programs. Prior to Northpass, Steve ran sales, marketing and operations for Edifice, an enterprise data services and SaaS analytics platform serving the retail industry that was acquired by SPS Commerce (Nasdaq: SPSC) in 2012.
Connect with Steve:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephencornwell/
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
This week's episode was supported by Bambee (get a dedicated HR Manager for $99) at Bambee.com/uncharted

May 4, 2021 • 20min
Uncharted Podcast #81, Brendon Cassidy, On Why CoSelling is The Future and What To Look For When Hiring Your First Few Sales Candidates
Poya and Robby interview Brendon Cassidy, who returns to the show as a Co-CEO and Co-Founder of CoSell, a company that helps organizations leverage referrals to find and accelerate sales deals. Prior to founding CoSell, Brendon was the first head of sales at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft for $26 Billion), a VP of Sales for EchoSign (acquired by Adobe), and Talkdesk (valued at $4 billion).
Connect with Brendon:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendon/
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
Connect with Robby Allen:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/

Apr 19, 2021 • 20min
Uncharted Podcast #79, 3 Things That Successful Sales Reps Admire in Sales Manager and 3 Things They Don't With Briana Carter and Kevin Russell
We talk to Briana Carter and Kevin Russell who were formerly scaling the EMEA business for HackerRank. Most recently, they started a podcast called "Be.Human" which is a creative medium for them and experts to talk about what it means to live a life that is mindful, purpose-driven, messy, meaningful, and fulfilling.
On this episode, we talk through some of the characteristics we admire in sales managers, while some we don't appreciate.
Connect with Briana Carter:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/briana-carter/
Connect with Kevin Russell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinrussell2/
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) and Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at www.indeed.com/scale)

Apr 13, 2021 • 26min
Uncharted Podcast #78, Responsibilities of a Chief of Staff in a Technology Company, And The Importance of Staying Close To Your Customers With Kristen Durham, VP of Startup Initiatives at Zendesk
Kristen Durham is VP of Startup Initiatives at Zendesk. She previously served as the Zendesk Chief of Staff, and prior to that she spent four years at Silicon Valley Bank building its VC and technology banking practices in Latin America, China, and other emerging markets. Kristen holds an MS in Energy & Resources from UC Berkeley.
Connect with Kristen:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristendurham/
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) and Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at indeed.com/scale)

Apr 6, 2021 • 22min
Uncharted Podcast #77, Why Seed Is the New Series A, and the Three Qualities That Are Most Important for Startup Founders With Greg Sands, Founder & Managing Partner of Costanoa Ventures
Poya and Robby interview Greg Sands, founder and managing partner at Costanoa Ventures. Prior to founding Costanoa, Sands was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill, where he invested in early stage enterprise software startups, such as Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Youku, Quinstreet, and Feedburner. He was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and built the SuiteSpot Business unit from $0-$140M. He also served as a business development manager at Cisco where he architected a channel management plan. He served a term as the President of the Stanford DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund and remains on the executive committee. He is also the former Trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust and former Chair of its Venture Capital Committee.
Connect with Greg:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregsands/
https://twitter.com/gsands
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
Connect with Robby Allen:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/
This week's episode was supported by Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at indeed.com/scale)

Mar 30, 2021 • 23min
Uncharted Podcast #76, Spekit CEO Melanie Fellay on Building an Enduring Company for the Enterprise
Melanie Fellay is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spekit (https://spekit.co), the highest-rated and easiest-to-use digital enablement platform that maximizes employee productivity, helps you onboard faster and drives tool adoption by reinforcing your training and enablement in real-time, in any application.
Spekit was born out of the first-hand pain that Melanie and her co-founder Zari felt trying to drive tool adoption and enabling employees using outdated and ineffective solutions that couldn't keep up with today's pace of growth and change. Spekit became the solution to that pain and is now the software of choice for customers across sales enablement, learning & development and revenue operations roles.
Melanie is a BizOps and Enablement enthusiast with expertise driving Salesforce transformations and architecting employee-centric learning solutions. Melanie graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a degree in Accounting & Finance. In her free time, Mel enjoys dancing to live music at Red Rocks or hanging with her mini-goldendoodle puppy, Rufus.
Connect with Melanie:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniefellay/
Connect with Poya Osgouei:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/
Connect with Robby Allen:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/
This week's episode was supported by Oracle NetSuite (sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) and Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at indeed.com/scale)


