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Let's kick it off.

I'm going to be talking about really the themes,

if you're familiar with sort of what I've been talking about on LinkedIn.

It's a combination talk, the history of my company Pavilion. Raise your hand if you're familiar with Pavilion.

Okay, great, there you go.

So you know what it is.

Hopefully, it's the largest community for go-to-market executives and rising executives

in the world.

Our goal is to help everybody in this room and everybody at high-growth companies unlock and

achieve their professional potential, which really means there's learning, there's community, there's events, and there's insights

that we bring together to help you get where you want to go in your career.

At the same time, Pavilion is also a company, and what I want to talk about over the next

15 or so minutes is just the evolution of our company

because as much as I pontificate on social media as if I have all the answers,

the reality is that I've made all of the mistakes that I'm commenting about in the world at large.

So why not dive a little deep and build in public and show you some of the decisions that we've made, where we've emerged on the other side, and how I think about the future, because 2024 is a very

different world than 2021 or 2020, as we all know. So this is how we got started. That's one of our

very first dinners in New York City. Pavilion emerged really as a support group for

chief revenue officers, VPs of Sales, specifically in New York to come together and to help

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