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Podcast: Grit
Episode: CRO Gong, Ryan Longfield: Finding Comfort in the Uncomfortable: Redefining Failure
Description: In 2008, when Ryan Longfield took a contracted account executive position at LinkedIn without any prior sales experience, he knew he had to be “all-in.” “‘I’ll sleep under my desk if I have to,’” Ryan remembers telling a recruiter who asked if he was worried he won’t be able to hit $50,000 in sales in only three months. Now, after an almost 10-year run at LinkedIn where he worked in five different sales positions, Ryan serves as Chief Revenue Officer of Gong, a revenue intelligence platform for B2B sales teams. On th...