Peter Ahn

CEO

San Diego, California, United States17 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

  • Led sales growth from $0 to $5M ARR at Twingate.
  • Passionate advocate for authentic sales practices.
  • Empowers Asian leaders in tech sales.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales leader with a strong focus on authentic customer relationships.

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Skills

Core Skills

SalesLeadershipCoachingCustomer SuccessBusiness DevelopmentAccount ManagementPartnershipsTeam LeadershipCustomer Engagement

Other Skills

StrategyCultural IntelligenceAdvertisingGoogle AdwordsOnline AdvertisingStart-upsDisplay AdvertisingOnline MarketingSalesforce.comAnalyticsE-commerceBusinessEntrepreneurshipFundraisingSEM

About

I'm currently the CCO at TigerBeetle, a one of one OLTP database to power the next 30+ years of realtime transactions. With prior experience at Google, Dropbox, Slack, Front, and Twingate, I'm passionate about sharing my authentic experience as a Korean-American leader while helping others find their own unique sales voice. Sales is becoming increasingly difficult so to develop an “edge” or advantage requires the a combination of effective skills and confidence in one’s identity. I help coach on both aspects while helping teams build long term trust. Reach out to connect about TigerBeetle and sales. For on-demand sales tips, check out my featured section for online resources to help you sell with confidence and authenticity.

Experience

Tigerbeetle

Chief Customer Officer

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

  • TigerBeetle is the only purpose-built financial transactions database designed for mission-critical safety and performance.
  • In the last 10 years, realtime transactions around the world across several sectors, increased 3 orders of magnitude, and 30 year old general purpose (OLGP) databases can’t keep up—we’ve built something 1000x faster for the next 30 years.
  • As an expression of the world class technology built by our engineers, the TigerSales approach is one that’s rooted in building human connection, optimizing for long-term trust in our relationships.
  • We’re a group that's transparent, precise and passionate while serving the community honorably.
StrategySalesLeadership

Single origin

Advisor

Feb 2025Feb 2026 · 1 yr

  • While platforms like Snowflake/GCP/AWS unlock insights and exploration, the volume of pipelines, the complexity of infrastructure, and the increasing cost of computing are overwhelming data teams. Single Origin helps data-driven organizations boost team productivity while realizing massive cloud cost savings.

Dataland

Advisor

Jan 2025Feb 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Dataland solves the data fragmentation problem in customer support, giving you one unified platform that you can use to investigate and resolve every customer issue. Seamlessly search, analyze, and ask Al across all your data from one place.

Melodi

Advisor

Nov 2024Nov 2025 · 1 yr

  • Melodi provides an Al product platform designed to help product teams automatically improve their Al-powered products with customer feedback. It grades Al performance by customer intent, identifies issues through realtime monitoring, provides diagnostics tools, and automatically evaluates new model changes based on custom and standard LLM metrics.

Recall capital

Advisor

Sep 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Supporting Recall’s early stage founders learn new school sales approaches rooted in authenticity.

Playerzero

Advisor

Aug 2024Feb 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Debug any issue down to a line of code, and make sure it never happens again.

Elicit

Advisor

Feb 2024Feb 2025 · 1 yr

  • AI Research Assistant helping to simplify the world's truth seeking efforts.

Stitch

Advisor

Nov 2023Nov 2025 · 2 yrs

  • Stitch enables B2B marketplaces to offer flexible payment terms and improve their working capital.

Boox

Advisor

Nov 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • The circular economy platform that’s on a mission to eliminate single-use waste.

Common room

Advisor

Nov 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Common Room puts you in the driver’s seat of the modern buyer journey. Get a unified view into every signal across social, community, product, CRM, and more to initiate conversations, grow adoption, and accelerate pipeline faster than ever before.

Prodvana

Advisor

Jul 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr

  • Prodvana's Dynamic Delivery Engine replaces legacy, static CD systems and automatically configures your software delivery (Acquired by Databricks)

Twingate

3 roles

Advisor

Apr 2023May 2023 · 1 mo

VP of Enterprise

Jul 2021Apr 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Led sales, customer success and partnerships as GTM hire #1. Helped grow customer base from 0 to over 600 and ARR from $0-$5M competing against the likes of Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Cisco, P81 and Tailscale.

Head of Enterprise

Aug 2020Jul 2021 · 11 mos

SalesCustomer SuccessPartnerships

Peter ahn sales

Sales Performance Coach and Speaker

Apr 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Diego, California, United States

  • Sales is hard and it's becoming increasingly difficult for tech companies to stand out. Going through the motions and incorporating old school sales methodology is not enough to win in this day and age. But through authenticity and genuine sales approaches founders & sales teams are breaking through the noise while building meaningful customer relationships. This is where I've seen success selling and leading teams over the past 16 years at companies like Google, Dropbox, Slack, Front, Twingate, and now TigerBeetle. Reach out if you're tired of cookie cutter sales advice and are looking to have sales work with your brand, not against it.
  • I’m also passionate about empowering the next generation of Asian leaders and sellers to lean into their identity through authentic sales and business practices that leverage eastern values as a superpower. I’m available to speak on this topic and the increasing need for cultural intelligence within tech sales.
SalesCoachingCultural Intelligence

Squadz

Advisor

Apr 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Connecting sports brands to high quality basketball communities all over the country.
  • Check out one of our runs in a city near you at https://www.squadz.com/play today! Currently in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Santa Barbara, and Washington DC.

Orb

Advisor

Jul 2022Jun 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Developer-first billing infrastructure built to help companies succeed with usage-based pricing.

Craft ventures

Scout

Jan 2021Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Craft Ventures is an early-stage VC fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Notable scout investments include LiveKit and Paramark.

Momentum

Advisor

Dec 2020Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Momentum is a modern, deal acceleration platform that helps sales teams drive the internal collaboration necessary to form impactful customer relationships. With enterprise sales becoming more complex and nuanced, Momentum empowers teams across the entire company to build the revenue story together.

Scarf

Advisor

Sep 2020Mar 2025 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Scarf helps open-source developers get compensated for their work and deliver better software to their users while helping businesses more effectively leverage their open-source dependencies. When open-source maintainers are well informed and properly compensated, the result is better software for everyone.

Decoding sales

Podcast Host

Jul 2020Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • An engineer (Alex Allain) and a salesperson (that’s me!), demystify modern sales concepts and techniques. Our mission is to change the way the world views sales.

Facet

Advisor

Dec 2018Nov 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Facet delivers world-class image editing using next generation machine learning and AI concepts

Streak

Head of Sales & Business Development

Jul 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led sales and BD efforts focusing on building a strong SMB sales engine while pushing upmarket through enterprise messaging, partnerships, and expansion efforts.

Peter ahn sales

Business Advisor

Dec 2017Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Setting companies up for success by building strong business foundations:
  • Help establish company and product positioning
  • Mentor account executives on sales presence, communication, and deal management
  • Explore and establish new vertical strategies
  • Help form early partnerships and business development strategies
  • Coach and advise startup CEO's on effective sales pitches and early go-to-market plans

Front app

2 roles

Enterprise Lead

Jan 2017Dec 2017 · 11 mos

  • Led enterprise team responsible for closing and maintaining initial deals with Weight Watchers, Shopify, Dropbox, Skechers, and Microsoft. Helped form enterprise foundation around outbound sales strategy, big deal structures, and CIO engagements.

Business Development Manager

Oct 2016Jan 2017 · 3 mos

  • Led BD efforts around partnerships and new sales channels
SalesAccount Management

K-motion

Advisor

Dec 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • 3D biofeedback training for golf, baseball, and physical therapy
SalesBusiness Development

Slack

Senior Account Executive

Jan 2016Sep 2016 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Helped build Slack's presence within the enterprise. Struck initial partnerships with News Corp, Conde Nast, Disney, CBS, Turner Broadcasting System, Riot Games, and Associated Press.
Business Development

Dropbox

4 roles

Head of Media Sales

Jul 2015Dec 2015 · 5 mos

  • Led a team of media account executives on both the east and west coasts. Responsible for media sales targets for the mid market, enterprise and named accounts. Worked closely with field marketing and product management to build out external media use cases and vertical expertise.
SalesPartnerships

Strategic Accounts

Mar 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Part of the Dropbox NYC office landing team. Focused on media and entertainment sales while helping to build out the office and Dropbox's east coast presence. Continued to partner with key media brands such as News Corp, Time Warner, and Macmillan Publishers.
SalesTeam Leadership

Direct Sales Account Executive

Feb 2013Mar 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Participated and helped shape the first enterprise sales efforts at Dropbox. Responsible for landing key partnerships across various verticals. Worked to form early business relationships with NBCUniversal, National Geographic, CBS, Hearst Corporation, MIT
SalesAccount Management

Account Executive

Apr 2012Feb 2013 · 10 mos

  • As part of the first sales team at Dropbox, helped to build out Dropbox's inbound sales channel through chat and phone support.
SalesPartnerships

Google

3 roles

Account Executive, Google TV Ads

Jan 2011Apr 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Responsible for bringing in net new business in the media & entertainment, technology, and retail segments for Google's TV Ads platform
SalesCustomer Engagement

Account Manager, Google TV Ads

Nov 2009Jan 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Worked to build out TV campaigns with existing media & entertainment, retail, and technology customers
SalesAccount Management

Online Sales Operations Associate

Aug 2008Nov 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • AdWords and AdSense Sales
SalesAccount Management

Education

Stanford University

BA — Economics

Jan 2004Jan 2008

Palo Alto High School

Jan 2001Jan 2004

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