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Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Ep. 07 – Decentralizing Business Operations with Shiv Narayanan

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Management, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9224 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

to help manage membership, website, events and other activities. COO Shiv Narayanan dives into the impact of running an organization in a more decentralized manner while tackling the concept of natural hierarchies. Specializing in lowering customer acquisition costs, capturing and cultivating high-quality leads, and maximizing lifetime value, Shiv uncovers the three significant pillars of self-development, […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to Second and Command, brought to you by C.O. Alliance, where top-level COO-O-O-O-Sher insights,

0:08.0

where top-level COO-S share the insights, tactics, and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief.

0:15.7

And now here's your host, Cameron Herald. Wild Apricot's Shiv Narayana is with us today on the Second in

0:27.7

Command podcast, the Chief Behind the Chief. Shiv is the Chief

0:31.2

Marketing Officer at Wild Apricot out of Toronto, Canada and while his title is

0:35.0

CMO, he also functions as the company's second in command.

0:39.0

Wild Apricott is an all-in-one membership management SAS product for small associations, clubs and

0:44.2

non-profits. They've got a huge membership base and in fact we are actually utilizing

0:48.8

their software for our COO alliance. On top of being the second in command for Wild Apricod, he's also a co-founder of

0:56.0

How to SAS, which is a go-to podcast for growing cloud software companies, teaching the marketing,

1:02.0

sales, business development, and customer service best practices and strategies.

1:06.0

And Zippy wasn't busy enough already.

1:09.0

Shiv is also a strategic advisor for two companies in the tech space, shoelace and cross rope. Now another thing

1:16.3

that we're going to be diving into on the podcast today in the interview or talk

1:19.3

with Shiv is the founder of Wild Apricot, Dimitri Butrin is the father of Vitalik, who was the guy that

1:28.1

created Ethereum, which is the second most popular digital currency in the world.

1:32.2

So I'm looking forward to learning

1:33.9

about that as well and how it tied into I guess a lot of the early stage

1:38.0

employees at Wild Apricot holding some of that digital currency so Shiv

1:41.8

welcome to the show.

1:43.0

Great to be on Cameron. Thanks for having me.

1:45.6

No, it's really cool. So tell me how you got in with Wild Apricot originally.

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