GTM 12: People-First GTM Leadership

GTM 12: People-First GTM Leadership with Dini Mehta

Dini Mehta is the former CRO of Lattice, a people management software for growing companies. She’s an operating partner at Operator Collective, bringing together 150+ of the world’s most successful tech operators from a variety of backgrounds as Limited Partners (LPs), each with current experience building, growing, and running the world’s most admired companies.

Additionally, Dini serves as a mentor, advisor, and angel investor.

She discusses her journey from hating sales to deciding on it as a lifelong career, how her leadership and collaborative skills have grown, and how she dealt with loss of control as a leader during the pandemic.

Highlights:

(3:57) Dini Mehta’s background.

(6:28) Dini’s take on AI.

(9:10) How did Dini decide to get into sales?

(15:24) How should founders plan for their incremental growth?

(18:49) Making bets on business.

(21:47) Deciding on whether to make a bet or shelve it.

(25:49) Dealing with change during the COVID Season.

(32:50) How to deal with loss of control as a leader.

(40:23) How to articulate the need to adjust expectations without seeming like you’re avoiding a challenge.

Guest Speaker Link:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinimehta/

Host Speaker Links:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ssbarker/
Newsletter: thegtmnewsletter.substack.com/

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Before helping found GTMfund, Scott spent 4 years at Outreach as Director of Strategic Engagement. He was in charge of aligning key relationships with VCs, BoDs, ecosystem partners and community members to drive revenue and strategic initiatives across Outreach. Scott initially ran revenue/partnerships for Sales Hacker (which was acquired by Outreach in 2018). Prior to Sales Hacker, he led and built outbound Business Development teams at Payfirma and MediaValet. Scott also advises for a number of high growth start-ups and is the host/author of The GTM Podcast and The GTM Newsletter. At GTMfund, Scott leads all fundraising efforts and runs the media arm of the firm. He’s also responsible for assessing investments, team management, LP/community relationships and GTM support for founders.

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