59 min

CMO Samsara, Sarah Patterson: What You Do vs. Why It Matters Grit

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Guest: Sarah Patterson, CMO of Samsara

In this episode, we cover: Making deliberate choices about how you spend your time (06:36); Accepting imperfection and being vulnerable with your colleagues (11:18); The practice that goes into looking polished onstage (17:17); The year Sarah left Salesforce for BranchOut, and why she went back (23:15); The rapid growth of Samsara, and what it does (27:35); How a mandate for truckers in North America laid the groundwork for Samsara’s business (33:39); How Sarah thinks about the challenge of hiring, and why “what you do” is not the most important thing (39:32); “Trial by fire” - earning the trust of workers who were at Samsara before her (42:43); Is it easier to be an interviewer or an interviewee? (52:55)

Guest: Sarah Patterson, CMO of Samsara

In this episode, we cover: Making deliberate choices about how you spend your time (06:36); Accepting imperfection and being vulnerable with your colleagues (11:18); The practice that goes into looking polished onstage (17:17); The year Sarah left Salesforce for BranchOut, and why she went back (23:15); The rapid growth of Samsara, and what it does (27:35); How a mandate for truckers in North America laid the groundwork for Samsara’s business (33:39); How Sarah thinks about the challenge of hiring, and why “what you do” is not the most important thing (39:32); “Trial by fire” - earning the trust of workers who were at Samsara before her (42:43); Is it easier to be an interviewer or an interviewee? (52:55)

59 min