Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to

you by 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.

The cats today is Vanta's chief revenue officer, Stevie Case.

Stevie oversees Vanta's go-to-market team to support the company's rapid growth.

She brings over 15 years of sales and business development experience to the new role.

Most recently, serving as vice president of mid-market sales at

Twilio, a market-leading cloud communications platform.

Joining as one of the first account executives, Stevie played a pivotal role in establishing Twillio's enterprise business with key Fortune 500 customers generating more than 400 million in annual recurring revenue.

She helped grow the sales team from a dozen to over a thousand team members.

Stevie also supports startup serving as an angel investor and advisor for the past decade.

So Stevie, welcome to the Second Command podcast.

Thanks so much. It's great to be here. Yeah, selfishly I want to like dive in about all this angel investing so I'll just add that to the list of like topics to ask you about because I've got some super interesting questions hopefully and then I'd love to hear some of your advice but walk me through a little bit about kind of how you got into the role that you're in today kind of what got you in your career to being a CRO and really the second

command of Vanta?

Yeah, I've had a very non-traditional path to the role is the honest answer. I started at the University of Kansas thinking I was

going to be a lawyer and was going down a pre-law path. I ended up dropping out of school and starting my career as a professional video

gamer and that is the thing that indirectly led me into tech so I played

video games professionally I So I played video games professionally.

I ended up making video games for a living.

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