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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#157: Scaling & Selling a $100M Company with Kyle York (Former Dyn CRO)

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Seeking Wisdon, DC sits down with Kyle York, former CRO, CMO, and General Manager of Dyn and current founder and CEO of York IE. Together they discuss Dyn's path to becoming a $100 million business and its ultimate sale to Oracle. Plus, the importance of working through "the Dips," mental health and well-being, the future of field sales and marketing in a post-COVID world, and much more. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends. You can connect with DC and his co-host, Adam Schoenfeld, on Twitter @dcancel @schoeny @HYPERGROWTH_Pod

Transcript

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0:00.0

Boom, and we're back.

0:06.7

Seeking Wisdoms here.

0:08.1

I never play the host or rarely play the host,

0:10.5

but this is an exception to the rule.

0:12.5

I'm here with Kyle York up in the wilderness,

0:15.5

it seems there, of Manchester, New Hampshire.

0:18.1

How's it going, Kyle?

0:19.4

It's coming great.

0:20.3

D.C., good to see you. Good seeing you, man. It's going great. Do you see? Good to see you,

0:22.3

man. It's been a long time. Can you tell the people about yourself, your background? And then I'll

0:27.1

Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure. So we've known each other from way back. I think you're formable to HubSpot

0:33.7

days, but I helped build a company up here in Manchester, New Hampshire called Dyn, Internet Infrastructure Company, was really early there.

0:41.3

Fifteen people when I joined, you know, it's an internet infrastructure company,

0:45.1

so you can imagine the founders are heavily technical.

0:47.9

So I was brought in as a go-to-market leader, the first go-to-market leader and was its

0:52.5

chief revenue officer.

0:55.8

He successfully scaled that company to 100 million ARR and sold the Oracle in late 2016. I then hung out at Oracle for

1:02.3

three years. I actually learned a lot and enjoyed my experience. I'm sure we'll talk a little bit about

1:07.2

the juxtaposition of startup life in big corporates and had a lot of success with

1:12.9

the GM of the dime business there and help run strategy for Oracle Cloud.

1:17.0

And then in parallel with that, as you know, where we've crossed a lot of paths over the years,

1:21.4

just do a lot of angel investing, advising, board stuff, obviously focused in New England a great

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