Richard F. Purcell

Co-Founder

Austin, Texas, United States13 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Built GTM strategies leading to 4 successful exits.
  • Closed enterprise deals with Fortune 50 companies.
  • Executed over 30 GTM experiments for market expansion.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales expert with a strong focus on enterprise solutions and market strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

SalesBusiness DevelopmentLeadership

Other Skills

Lead generationSales strategyCRM utilizationData analysisReferral systemsData accuracyNetworkingGTM processesInvestment strategyMarket analysisMembership organizationCommercial growthMarket expansionProduct developmentMarket research

About

Moved to Silicon Valley in 2014 with nothing but a car and clothes. Turned that into 13 years building GTM across 5 companies, 20+ clients, and 4 successful exits: Medallia (IPO), Hustle (Social Capital), CrowdAI (Saab), Ocurate (Fenix). Closed first enterprise deals that became repeatable playbooks with brands such as Comcast, Verizon, Airbnb, Live Nation, Bally's, WeWork, AXA, AB InBev, Uber, Square, and more. Pattern behind every experiment: #1 - Start with existing relationships. #2 - Match the channel with buyers' behavior. #3 - Optimize for quality over volume. #4 - Reverse engineer the journey of high-value customers #5 - Run lean, then scale. Most tests cost <$500 to prove the thesis. Four Operating Principles: Frugality, First principles, Experimentation, AI-native. Learn step-by-step instructions for executing 50+ experimenting: moxiegtm.substack.com Leadership Purpose: "Build and maintain meaningful, long-lasting relationships that help individuals live up to their full potential."

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Billd

Generating & Capturing Demand

Mar 2026Present · 1 mo · Austin, Texas, United States

The swarm 🔆

GTM Advisor

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Operationalizing referrals and warm intros using the freshest and most accurate people data.
Referral systemsData accuracyNetworkingBusiness Development

Moxiegtm

Founder

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • Know who to call next and what to say.
  • Scan your product data, CRM, and public info to spot the hottest leads.
  • Drop them right into the tools your team already uses.
  • Move faster and close bigger deals by nudging buyers to the moments that matter.
  • Identify the top 20% of your pipeline in under 48 hours. ROI in under 30 days.
Lead generationSales strategyCRM utilizationData analysisSalesBusiness Development

Ocurate

Co-Founder

Sep 2020Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • (acquired by Fenix Commerce in 2024)
  • Challenge: Large proprietary database & deep machine learning sold to political campaigns needed to expand to eCommerce.
  • Solution: Built the entire foundation of product, sales, and marketing. Results within the first six months: Closed 6 enterprise deals, ACV $60K, avg sales cycle <30 days, 100% of pilots converted to annual, 75% of deals sold without discounting, every customer was referenceable
  • Challenge: In Q4 2022, the company moved up-market with a new product.
  • Solution: Devised and executed over 30 new GTM experiments to get more pull from the market through organic conversations instead of a push from the seller through cold outreach. With a lower headcount powered by Generative AI and a Virtual Assistant, company saw only a minor reduction in meetings booked, higher conversion rate from first meeting to close, and 75% of new meetings booked were from target accounts generating over $1B in revenue.
Sales strategyMarket expansionProduct developmentBusiness Development

Rebel fund

Associate

Jul 2020Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Tasked with replicating the go-to-market processes used by SaaS companies for Rebel's $65M Fund I and $100M Fund II.
  • Rebel’s mission is to identify and invest in the top 0.1% of the 40,000 tech startups that apply to each batch of Y Combinator, the #1 accelerator in the world, and is supported by founders of some of the most accomplished ‘unicorns’ (Reddit, Instacart, Cruise, and others) to ever graduate from the program.
GTM processesInvestment strategyMarket analysisBusiness Development

Revenue collective

Executive Member

Jul 2019Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Revenue Collective is a private, invite-only, membership organization for commercial growth operators.
  • Membership consists of 500+ leaders from Sales, Marketing, and Operations.
  • Chapters in New York, Los Angeles, London, Denver, Boston, Toronto, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and Amsterdam.
Membership organizationNetworkingCommercial growthLeadership

Crowdai

Head of Enterprise Sales, Founding Team

Apr 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • (acquired by Saab in 2023)
  • Challenge: Company sold technology as project-based revenue for three years to US Government. Needed to take a cutting-edge computer vision deep learning technology with no repeatable product and find a way to sell to commercial enterprises.
  • Solution: Conducted initial market research to validate Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, and Insurance as key verticals to go-to-market. Worked backwards to find the biggest pains of each vertical and tie them back to the company’s solutions. Ran end-to-end sales cycles to close marquee logos.
Market researchSales cyclesEnterprise solutionsSales

Hustle

Director of Enterprise Sales

Aug 2017Apr 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • (acquired by Social Capital in 2020)
  • Challenge: Series A funded company with product adopted by political campaigns and non-profits needed a leader to propel Enterprise expansion.
  • Solution: Led efforts to turn the product into an Enterprise platform adopted by the Fortune 50 and some of the most valuable companies in the world. Created a systematic process to validate and invalidate new use cases based on product/market fit which became the company’s engine for operational efficiency and future growth.
  • Built and managed an organization of salespeople to turn a hypothesis into initial market analysis then into the first customer wins in a new market and ultimately to finding repeatability and predictable revenue.
  • Navigated a highly regulated market by leading cross-functional teams to pro-actively de-risk Enterprise compliance and data security blockers such as GDPR, TCPA, SOC 2 Type II, and customer data deletion.
  • Hustle is a campaign-based, peer-to-peer messaging platform designed empower to organizations to humanize communication with their audiences while maintaining data privacy and compliance. Texting with Hustle compliments other communication strategies and brings real human connection back in the digital era when people ignore bots and prefer to talk to real people.
  • Hustle is the leader in transforming how individuals and institutions build meaningful, long-lasting relationships.
  • Backed by world-class venture firms including Insight Venture Partners, Google Ventures, Social Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and Kapor Capital.
Enterprise salesMarket validationCross-functional leadershipSales

Partnerize

Sales Director

Jan 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Challenge: UK-based company built a repeatable business in the EU. First non-executive salesperson hired to expand the product into NA. Required an enterprising agitator to instill best practices and prove product/market fit. Lean start-up mentality with no BDRs/SDRs, no sales engineers, very little brand awareness, and minimal support from marketing.
  • Solution: Exceeded quota within the first year by closing deals with Fortune 500. Responsible for end-to-end sales process including prospecting, executive summaries, RFPs, sales presentations, demos, etc.
  • Forged co-selling relationship with a strategic technology partner.
  • Sold complex enterprise product at 2-3x the nearest competitor’s price using STRONGMAN methodology.
  • Performance Horizon is a technology company replacing the traditional networks connecting advertisers to their digital partners. Clients are empowered to drive online traffic and sales based on strategic objectives such as margins, inventory, seasonality, geography, new vs. returning customers, and more.
  • We do this for some of the largest, most complex enterprises including Uber, Google, Expedia, Spotify, Virgin Australia, Marriott, Square, Burberry, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, and British Airways.
  • Our platform drives $3B+ in advertiser top line revenues across 120,000+ marketing partners in 170+ countries processing payments in 50+ currencies and providing support in 50+ languages.
  • Mithril (Thiel Capital) is lead investor.
Sales processPartnershipsMarket fitSales

Medallia, inc.

New Business

Mar 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Palo Alto, CA

  • (IPO'ed in 2019)
  • Sales Pioneer of first SMB product
  • Challenge: Medallia’s first foray into SMB market. Product was two years old and never had a full time sales person and needed to escalate revenue and process improvements.
  • Solution: Led efforts to simplify sales price, update contracts, extend subscription length, optimize outbound sales activities, refresh sales messaging, and streamline sales cycle.
  • Catalyst for Lead Gen
  • Challenge: Second lead gen rep ever hired for the company and went six months without a manager. Needed someone to help scale the operation and efficiently (and creatively) generate pipeline.
  • Solution: Tested innovations and scaled them across the sales ecosystem including sales tools, C-level messaging, prospecting blitz, a system to source leads from employees, and “chaski” deliveries to executives.
  • Tech Inclusion
  • Challenge: As company grew, needed to increase inclusion and access to opportunities for underrepresented talent.
  • Solution: Co-founded "Medallia Medley". Galvanized grass-roots, cross functional teams and later earned executive sponsorship from Head of HR and co-founder/President. Led weekly meetings to drive institutional change including hiring FT D&I resource, rebuilding unconscious bias workshops to include race, and expanding talent pool.
Sales strategyLead generationDiversity initiativesSales

Fleetmatics (formerly sagequest)

Inside Sales Representative

Jan 2013Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Charlotte Metro

  • (acquired by Verizon in 2016)
  • The foundation of my cold calling technique was built during my time at Fleetmatics. Minimum of 100 cold calls a day selling software to blue collar business owners in New York/New Jersey who still had aol.com email addresses.
  • Top selling agent in office of 40+ and fastest selling rookie in publicly traded company’s 10 year history.
  • Inducted into highly coveted and prestigious “Century Club” for sales achievement in first selling month. Award bestowed on agents that sell 100 units in one month. Average agent sells 30/month and takes him/her 6+ months to reach 100 unit/month.
  • Innovated company’s traditional lead generation via Twitter. Led to a six figure deal in first week of launch.
Cold callingSales techniquesLead generationSales

Education

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Bachelor's Degree

Leadership Charlotte

Emotional Intelligence

Universidad de Guadalajara

Diploma — Conversational Spanish

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