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Chris Orlob

CEO

Corona del Mar, California, United States12 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Grew Gong from $200K to $200M ARR.
  • Helped over 11,000 sales professionals succeed.
  • Achieved first seven-figure income.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales leader with a strong focus on revenue growth and skill development.

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Skills

Core Skills

SalesLeadershipProduct ManagementSales ManagementProduct MarketingMarketing StrategyMarketing

Other Skills

B2BEntrepreneurshipSaaSGo-to-market StrategyPositioningSales ProcessSalesforce.comLead GenerationInside SalesPublic SpeakingDirect SalesRecruitingEnterprise SoftwareStrategic PartnershipsAdvertising

About

"You can have anything you want if you master every aspect of selling." My mentor told me that over a burger when I was 22 years old. Having only $40 to my name, along with a wife and my first child to support, I took that seriously. I made a commitment to master every aspect of selling, and to earn more money than I could imagine. And I was going to do it in SaaS. When I first became an account executive, I struggled to find repeatable, consistent success. Some months I did well. Some I missed by a mile. After reading hundreds of books (literally) and debriefing every one of my sales calls (thousands) in a journal, I started to crack the code, little by little. Soon, things started to go incredibly well. I started to earn multiple six figures a year, which helped me launch my first business. Not too long later (after plenty of mistakes!), I joined forces with a little company called Gong.io, while they were doing less than $200,000 a year in ARR. Figured I'd help them grow to $10M and be done. 5.5 years later, we grew from $200k to $200 million in ARR and a $7.2 billion valuation. I was fortunate enough to earn my first seven-figure income. A decade pursuit of mastering every aspect of sales had come to fruition (though I'm still not done). That felt amazing. I kept finding myself telling people, "You can have anything you want if you master every aspect of selling," just like my mentor had told me all those years ago. Because I experienced it first-hand. My passion for mastering every aspect of selling started to extend to helping OTHER people do it. Soon, I started pclub.io - a business dedicated to helping B2B tech salespeople master every aspect of selling (and earn more money than they've ever dreamed of). Since starting, I've helped over 11,000 sales professionals and leaders. Many of which have gone on to turbo charge their sales success: “Exceeded 245% of my target." -Christian Allen, AE at ZoomInfo "CLOSED the most ARR in company history” -Marshall Weil, AE at Freewill "Made 152% of my number” -Jasi Johnson, AE at Gartner "I made it to Club One - the new program rolled out for the top 1%. -David Rosenstein, AE at LinkedIn Many of these stories included people who started out thinking, "Maybe this is possible for other talented people, but not for me." But selling is nothing more than a series of skills. Anyone can master it, and I can teach you how. Like I always tell people, "you can have anything you want if you master every aspect of selling." Begin writing YOUR success story by visiting www.pclub.io

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Demostack

Advisor

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Pclub.io

Co-Founder & CEO

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Accelerate the performance, skills, and revenue of every role in your go-to-market team, from SDR to AE to CRO - with the world's #1 skill transformation platform.
SalesLeadershipB2BEntrepreneurshipSaaS

Gong

3 roles

Head of Go-To-Market - New Products

Promoted

Feb 2022Sep 2022 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • In our quest to grow Gong to $1B in ARR, I'll be:
  • Transitioning Gong from a single-product to a multi-product company
  • Launching and growing multiple streams of ARR into (eventual) $100M+ product lines
  • Responsible for the revenue growth of all new products
SalesProduct ManagementGo-to-market Strategy

Head of Sales - Growth Segment

Jul 2019Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Attained 141% annual net new ARR targets (highest performing US sales segment at Gong)
  • $60M total ARR responsibility (largest among segment leaders at Gong)
  • Hired to transition growth sales motion from "farming" to "hunting"
  • Grew org from 0 to 30 AEs, 3 frontline managers, ops, and enablement.
  • Grew net dollar retention (NDR) to 149% (top 10% of all SaaS companies).
  • Grew six-figure customer count by 21x.
  • President's Club auto-qualifier
Sales ManagementB2BLeadership

Director, Product Marketing

Nov 2016Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Created the #1 SaaS startup marketing program on the planet
  • Catapulted Gong from obscurity to a white-hot SaaS brand
  • Generated the demand that fueled Gong's legendary ARR growth
Product MarketingMarketing Strategy

Conversature

Co-Founder & CEO

Aug 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Salt Lake City Area

  • Secured first customers in the revenue intelligence category
  • Built outsized market presence through thought leadership marketing
  • Joined forces with Gong.io at $200k ARR.
SalesMarketing

Insidesales.com

4 roles

Regional Sales Manager - New Business

Jan 2015Aug 2015 · 7 mos · Provo, Utah, United States

Account Executive - New Business

Promoted

Dec 2013Jan 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Provo, Utah, United States

  • - Consistently top 1-3 producer on a 30+ person AE team

Sales Development Representative (Outbound - Mid-Market)

Aug 2013Dec 2013 · 4 mos · Provo, Utah, United States

  • #1 producer on mid-market SDR team (outbound)
  • Promoted in three months

Sales Development Representative (Inbound)

May 2013Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Provo, Utah, United States

  • #1 producer on inbound SDR team
  • Promoted in 5 months

Education

Utah Valley University

Marketing

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