Sit Down Startup Live

A lot has changed in the cloud industry in the last 20 years. As of February 2020, there were more than 80 cloud unicorns in the market, including companies like Stripe, Airtable, Culture Amp, and Mailchimp. Join us for a live episode of the Sit Down Startup podcast with:

• Elena Gomez, Chief Financial Officer at Zendesk
• JD Peterson, Chief Growth Officer at Culture Amp
• Archana Agrawal, Chief Marketing Officer at Airtable.

Event topics

1. The unexpected acceleration of the cloud and SaaS in 2020

2. Challenges of building a high growth cloud company

3. How investment in customer experience plays an important role in achieving growth

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Speakers Information

Elena Gomez, Chief Financial Officer at Zendesk

Elena is an expert finance leader and lover of great software. She has served as CFO of Zendesk since May 2016, and also currently sits on the boards of top cloud companies Smartsheet and PagerDuty.

JD Peterson, Chief Growth Officer at Culture Amp

JD is a Silicon Valley veteran with several years of leadership positions in high-growth companies. Prior to his current role at Culture Amp, JD was CMO at Trello when the company was acquired by Atlassian. He has also served as a marketing executive at Marketo, Zendesk, and a number of other tech companies.

Archana Agrawal, Chief Marketing Officer at Airtable

Archana Agrawal is the Chief Marketing Officer at Airtable, a low-code platform for building collaborative applications. Previously, Archana served as the Head of Enterprise and Cloud Marketing at Atlassian, a development and collaboration software company. She joined Atlassian as Head of Data Science and Growth Marketing, where she helped build and scale the analytics capabilities for the company’s online distribution model. Prior to that, Archana led analytics at TheLadders and worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center.