Robert Brooks Iv
Founding Team & VP, Revenue at Lambda
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Team & VP, Revenue
2018 - Current
100% focused on empowering the leaders of Lambda’s Sales, Marketing & Customer Success Orgs.
Advisor/Angel
2020
Advising & investing in seed stage deeptech startups: uptothewrite.com Writing for technical founders: uptothewrite.substack.com
Head of Sales
2016 - 2018
Tempo raised $75M in venture funding and went public on NASDAQ: https://www.tempoautomation.com/news/tempo-ace-merger/ Tempo builds software to automate robots. I came to work every day inspired by the customers we served - companies building cutting-edge robotics, satellites, rockets, self-driving cars, internet of things, drones, and much more. - First Sales Hire - Developed GTM Strategy focused on Enterprise/Fortune 500 Sales - Grew company revenue 500%+ in the first year - Closed & managed $X,000,000 enterprise partnerships - Built sales dashboards & sales tech stack - Built BDR & AE team, metrics & strategy - Built & executed sales hiring, onboarding processes & training material - Report to Founder/VP of Product
Tempo Automation is transforming the way companies innovate and bring new electronic products to market.
Raised $353,600,000.00 from Point72 Ventures, Ace Equity Partners, Firsthand Technology Value Fund and Lux Capital.
Sales Team Lead
2012 - 2016
Stack Overflow raised $68M in venture funding and was acquired for $1.8 Billion in 2021: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosus-acquires-stack-overflow Stack Overflow is the largest online community of software developers in the world. I partnered with startups & Fortune 500 companies to promote what they were building with software & how they recruited on Stack Overflow. Quick personal stats: - Closed the largest New Business deal in the history of the company - Lead #1 team on West Coast in 2013 & 2014, 8-12 AEs, Player/Coach - Finished as a top 10 sales executive in 2014 & 2015 - Promoted 4x in under 4 years
Stack Overflow is a platform for developers and programmers to share knowledge and solve coding challenges.
Raised $153,000,000.00 from Times Bridge, Times Bridge, Spark Capital, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, GIC and Silver Lake Waterman.
Registered Stock Broker
2010 - 2012
Series 7 & 63 certified. Advanced Broker: Technical Analysis & Options Trading. In the 95th percentile for lead conversions throughout the entire company. Placed on the outbound portfolio consolidation team to work with high-net-worth clientele ($10M+) and bring assets into Schwab.
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