Overview In this episode of Scaling Success, Volition Founding Partner Sean Cantwell interviews Chris Fahey, SVP of Talent at Volition. During the interview, Chris shares his experiences supporting portfolio companies, helping CEOs and founders build their organizations with a forward-looking perspective, and so much more. Background Chris joined Volition Capital in 2020 as our first People and Talent hire to build out the human network in support of Volition and its portfolio companies. Since joining, Chris and his team have placed 65 executive level professionals across the portfolio, prov ..read more

In this episode of Scaling Success, Sean Cantwell hosts Chris Fahey, Senior Vice President of Talent at Volition Capital, to discuss building high-performance teams. Chris shares his experience supporting portfolio companies, focusing on HR and talent internally at Volition, and helping CEOs and founders build their organizations with a forward-looking perspective. He also highlights the appeal of working with growth-stage companies, which often have a clear product-market fit and the resources to expand. About Chris Fahey Chris joined Volition Capital in 2020 as the first Talent hire. In th ..read more

The entrepreneurial journey can be a difficult one, but it’s not impossible with the right tools and support. In this episode of Scaling Success, Volition Capital managing partner Sean Cantwell is joined by Matt Whitteker – a multiple-time entrepreneur with experience at several stages in his career who has faced some unique challenges and shares his lessons learned along the way.  About Matt Whitteker: As one of Assent’s co-founders, Matt’s entrepreneurial spirit has been a guiding influence since the beginning. Matt has a passion for developing businesses and is the main driver behind ..read more

In Episode 8 of Scaling Success, Sean Cantwell invites Lynne Oldham to the podcast to discuss hiring in a post-pandemic world. Zoom was one of a handful of companies that experienced hyper-growth due to pandemic demand. Almost overnight, Zoom went from 10 million daily meeting participants to 300 million daily meeting participants. This, coupled with the shift to working from home, presented many challenges — and opportunities to the Chief People Officer at Zoom. Now that the world is in the process of transitioning back to a “new normal,” Lynne has some lessons for hiring that everyone can ..read more

In Episode 07 of Scaling Success, Volition Capital managing partner Sean Cantwell invites Karen Flathers to the show to discuss the nuances of building a successful, scalable Customer Success function. Find out why she thinks a lot of companies do a great job of making their customers love them, but still fail at customer stickiness. “There’s some relationship that comes into it, but again, they’re going to look at their business and say, ‘What is the thing that it’s too painful for me to get rid of that’s going to have too big an impact on how I run my business, or how my people work?’ Chec ..read more

In episode 6 of Scaling Success, Sean Cantwell invites Andrew Waitman, CEO of Assent Compliance, to discuss his experience “operating at the edge of chaos” as he helped the business scale beyond startup mode into the elite, high-performing company it is today. Check out the full episode to hear Andrew discuss humility, hard decision, and the grit it takes to win.  About Andrew Waitman  Andrew’s history of helping businesses succeed continues at Assent Compliance. Since becoming CEO, he has been integral to the company’s growth and helped it earn a spot on the Narwhal List for high ..read more

Selling to SMBs can be exciting. It’s also extremely challenging. With fast-paced sales cycles, lower price points, and higher churn, it means you have to be making sales every single day to grow a company. In the most recent episode of Scaling Success, Sean Cantwell invites Pete Lamson, CEO JazzHR, Jobvite & NXTThing RPO, to join the show and talk about what it takes to scale successfully with SMBs. With a focus on B2B, high-velocity, new customer acquisition, Pete brings a meticulous, measurement-focused approach to help answer the questions entrepreneurs frequently ask as they are loo ..read more

In his latest episode of Scaling Success, Sean Cantwell welcomes JD Sherman, CEO of Dashlane, formerly President and COO of HubSpot, to talk about setting a strong foundation to scale. Pulling from his experience at IBM, Akamai, HubSpot, and Dashlane, JD discusses what he’s learned about scaling, growing fast, and the key foundational elements to consider along the way. About JD JD Sherman is the Chief Executive Officer of Dashlane, where he leads a 300+ global team across New York, Paris, and Lisbon, supporting Dashlane’s continued commitment to building the best password management se ..read more

In his latest episode of Scaling Success, Sean Cantwell invites Don Charlton to give a first-hand perspective on what it’s like to be a black founder in the startup world. Don is an entrepreneur, startup, evangelist, writer, and public speaker. He is currently the founder and CEO of Kommute, the first video messaging platform for businesses. Don also founded Jazz HR (formerly The Resumator) in 2009 and established the company as a venture-backed leader in SMB focused SAS recruiting, now serving over seven thousand members recruiting for over 100,000 jobs. Don is a graduate of Rochester Insti ..read more

In his latest episode of Scaling Success, Sean Cantwell invites Paul Melchiorre to discuss the art and science of sales.  SCALING SUCCESS EPISODE 02: PODCAST Scaling success episode 02: VIDEO Scaling Success Episode 02: Highlights How do you build and scale a successful sales organization? Who do you hire? What separates the good from the great in sales? To help answer these questions, Paul Melchiorre brings 30-years of experience in enterprise software sales and business leadership to the podcast table. Paul’s experience traces back to the early days of Ariba, leading to senior lea ..read more