Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

Our guest today is the C.O.

of Home to Go, Valentin Gruber. Home to Go is a marketplace

with the world's largest selection of holiday rentals listing millions of offers

across thousands of trusted partners. Valentin spent two years as CRO,

refining the customer support program

by fueling it with Salesforce to create a new B2B2C

CRM tool across the company. Prior to joining Home to Go, Valentin spent seven years with the

adobean building up the company subsidiaries. This involved time spent internationally in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the USA.

And building and scaling both the B2B and B to C sales teams. He then moved to the German

headquarters as country head.

Valentin studied management and finance at the University of Kentucky for a year

before attending W.HU Otto Bushheim School of Management in Germany.

So Valentin, welcome to the Second Command

podcast. Thank you Cameron. Very glad to be here. I may have stumbled a tiny

bit over some of the German pronunciation on names but I'm sure the audience will forgive me.

Interesting that you went to school in Kentucky, what the heck were you thinking going from

the from Germany to Kentucky?

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