Brendon Cassidy

Founder

Los Gatos, California, United States25 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built sales organizations for LinkedIn and EchoSign.
  • Achieved significant revenue growth at multiple startups.
  • Advised numerous successful tech companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales leader with extensive experience in building and scaling sales organizations.

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Skills

Core Skills

SalesExecutive ManagementBusiness Development

Other Skills

Sales OperationsSaaSGo-to-market StrategyLead GenerationSales ManagementRelationship ManagementOnboardingWeb AnalyticsCloud ComputingDirect SalesVisionaryLeadershipStrategy

About

Companies I advise or have advised: Navless, AdamX, Guidewheel, Fyxer, Kalpa, Gong.io, Pipedrive, Showpad, Mixmax, SaaStr, Automile, Entelo, SimpleLegal, MaestroQA, Talkdesk, HackerRank, Plivo, Docebo, LogDNA, Dozuki, Plato, Teamable, Logikcull, SalesLoft, RainForestQA, Perkville, Influitive, Captricity. Former VP of Sales for Talkdesk (employee 5, first US employee, currently valued at $2 billion), VP of Sales for EchoSign (employee 13, acquired by Adobe in 2011), and 1st Head of Sales for LinkedIn (employee 15ish, LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft for $26 billion in 2011)

Experience

Kalpa

Strategic Advisor

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · United States

Fyxerai

Strategic Advisor

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · United States

Siro

Investor

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · United States · Remote

Hifive (acquired)

Co-Founder

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Los Gatos, CA

Pavilion

Member, Ambassador, Advisor

Dec 2016Present · 9 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Gong

Founding Advisor

Jan 2016Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

  • Helped take Gong to market with CEO Amit Bendov. Story, pitch, first 50 customers, evangelism. All of it.

Talkdesk

VP Sales

Feb 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • Talkdesk allows support and sales organizations to build a callcenter right in their browser, without any need for phones, hardware, or traditional costs associated with callcenters.
  • In one year we've had a pretty epic growth curve. With Talkdesks recent move to San Francisco from Mountain View (I live in Los Gatos), I decided to prioritize family for a little while as I consult part time for several startups rather than commute 4 hours a day.
SalesBusiness Development

Cassidy ventures

Founder

Feb 2013Present · 13 yrs 2 mos · Los Gatos, CA

  • Mithrl (2025-present)
  • Guidewheel (2025-present)
  • Navless (2025-present)
  • Fyxer.AI (2024-present)
  • Kalpa (2024-present)
  • Telgorithm (2024-present)
  • Searchlight.ai (Consultant) 12/19 - Present
  • MaestroQA (Consultant) 8/19 - Present
  • Ada (Consultant) 10/19 - Present
  • LogDNA (Consultant) 1/19 - Present
  • Dozuki (Consultant) 9/18 - Present
  • SaaStr (Consultant) 3/18 - Present
  • Mixmax (Consultant) 1/18 - 9/18
  • Plato (Consultant) 10/17 - 3/18
  • Teamable (Consultant) 5/17 - 2/18
  • Docebo (Consultant) 7/17 - 10/17
  • Plivo (Consultant) 1/17 - Present
  • SalesLoft (Consultant) 12/16 - 6/17
  • RainforestQA (Consultant) 10/16 - 5/17
  • Automile (Consultant) 8/16 - 11/16
  • Simple Legal (Consultant) 7/16 - 11/16
  • Gong.io (Consultant) 3/16 - 12/16
  • Perkville (Advisor) 2/15 - Present
  • Entelo (Advisor) 2/14 - Present
  • Influitive (Advisor) 11/15 - 5/16
  • Logikcull (Consultant) 5/15 - 5/16
  • HackerRank (Consultant) 6/15 - 2/16
  • Showpad (Consultant) 2/14 - 5/14
  • Pipedrive (Consultant) 2/14 - 5/14
  • Captricity (Consultant) 11/13 - 2/14
SalesExecutive ManagementBusiness DevelopmentSales OperationsSaaS

Echosign (acquired by adobe)

Vice President of Sales

Jan 2009Dec 2013 · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Joined EchoSign as employee #10 as the VP of Sales, and grew the business from $1 million in ARR to now over $50 million in ARR and an acquisition by Adobe. Rebuilt sales organization into a high efficiency machine that produced 13 consecutive record quarters and record months in 32 of 51 months.
SalesExecutive ManagementBusiness Development

Linkedin

Director of Corporate Sales

Nov 2005Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Employee #15 at LinkedIn and their First Head of Sales, hired when LinkedIn Corporate Solutions was essentially a zero revenue business expected to be a minority revenue contributor, and built it into the fastest growing and largest revenue driver in the entire company, that now supports the lions share of LinkedIn's 1 billion dollars (and change) in annual revenue. Hired all sales management and sales reps, and never once missed our team or organizational quota. Awesome ride. Got to work for one of the two smartest (and best) people I have ever encountered in Silicon Valley -- Reid Hoffman.
SalesBusiness Development

Spoke software

Director of Sales

Jun 2004Dec 2005 · 1 yr 6 mos

Onstor (acquired by lsi logic)

Inside Sales Manager

May 2003Jun 2004 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • First Inside Sales hire, responsible for all lead gen covering 4 outside sales reps who spanned all of North America for ONStor. 150%+ of quota every quarter, administered Salesforce.com, participated in monthly strategy meeting with EStaff, demand creation mode with very little inbound interest and still beat quota handily each quarter

Otec

Recruiter

Dec 1999Jan 2003 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Education

Saint Mary's College of California

BA — English

Jan 1994Jan 1998

Saint Francis High School

Diploma

Jan 1991Jan 1994

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