Tomas Gorny's guest appearances

Tomas Gorny

B2B Growth

One on One Interviews

Daily Quote

Jon Dick

Sam Mallikarjunan

Jay Baer

Disrupt Marketing

Michelle Huff

Sangram Vajre

Jon Ferrara

Anand Thaker

Mathew Sweezey

Dave Gerhardt

Julio Viskovich

Timo Rein

Matthew Bellows

Tyler Lessard

Mike Volpe

OwlTail

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September 21, 2020: Tomas Gorny, Entrepreneur

In this episode we talk to Tomas Gorny, CEO &amp; Chairman at Nextiva. Tomas shares... Key lessons learned scaling a bootstrapped company from 0 to $150MM+. 1) Don't focus on your exit strategy 2) Make sure you believe in what you're doing &amp; that you're serving a true gap in the market (not just a perceived one) 3) Focus on building the right team--not just talented individuals, but a cohesive group that is all rowing toward a common goal How to win in extremely competitive markets when you're the underdog.  Focus on the 10x-type benefits you can bring, not just incremental differentiation.  Why CEOs need to step outside the boardroom and get "in the trenches" with their sales &amp; marketing teams. Want to learn best practices, tips, and strategies to generate positive and organic word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) by building your own scalable referral program? Get your free copy of The Definitive Guide to Referral Marketing from our friends over at Ambassador: GetAmbassador.com/growth

In this episode we talk to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-gorny-1b162884" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tomas Gorny</a>, CEO &amp; Chairman at <a href="https://nextiva.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nextiva</a>. Tomas shares... Key lessons learned scaling a bootstrapped company from 0 to $150MM+. 1) Don't focus on your exit strategy 2) Make sure you believe in what you're doing &amp; that you're serving a true gap in the market (not just a perceived one) 3) Focus on building the right team--not just talented individuals, but a cohesive group that is all rowing toward a common goal How to win in extremely competitive markets when you're the underdog. <ul> <li>Focus on the 10x-type benefits you can bring, not just incremental differentiation.</li> </ul> Why CEOs need to step outside the boardroom and get "in the trenches" with their sales &amp; marketing teams. Want to learn best practices, tips, and strategies to generate positive and organic word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) by building your own scalable referral program? Get your free copy of The Definitive Guide to Referral Marketing from our friends over at Ambassador: <a href="http://getambassador.com/growth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GetAmbassador.com/growth</a>

923: 3 Leadership Lessons from Bootstrapping to $150MM w/ Tomas Gorny

Nextiva

Gorny, an immigrant from Poland, shared with me a bit of his incredible rags to riches… back to rags, and finally bigger riches story, in a sit-down interview during the event.  He discussed how the Movie Wall Street made hime want to come to the United States (and live in Beverly Hills 90210), how he got started in business, and lessons learned from losing his first fortune - which helped him find even greater success in cofounding companies like SiteLock and Nextiva.  Gorny also discusses Nextiva’s new customer engagement platform NextOS, and why, based on his previous business experiences, he feels the company can compete with the likes of Salesforce.com and Microsoft in the very competitive CRM market.

Gorny, an immigrant from Poland, shared with me a bit of his incredible rags to riches… back to rags, and finally bigger riches story, in a sit-down interview during the event. He discussed how the Movie Wall Street made hime want to come to the United States (and live in Beverly Hills 90210), how he got started in business, and lessons learned from losing his first fortune - which helped him find even greater success in cofounding companies like SiteLock and Nextiva. Gorny also discusses Nextiva’s new customer engagement platform NextOS, and why, based on his previous business experiences, he feels the company can compete with the likes of <a href="http://Salesforce.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Salesforce.com</a> and Microsoft in the very competitive CRM market.

Tomas Gorny of Nextiva:  Identify Gaps in the Market then see if there’s a Market in the Gap