Episodes

  • Pre-Sales for Customer Success | Sumant Pal - Totango, Veritas
    May 1 2023

    Alok Shukla, in a conversation with Sumant Pal, Ex-SVP of Sales Engineering at Totango, Ex-Veritas, on why the presales and customer success are converging and why post-sales is the main revenue driver for most saas businesses.

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    30 mins
  • Product Led Pre & Post Sales Engineering | Paulo Rodriguez - Vanta, Dropbox, Google
    Apr 4 2023

    Alok Shukla, in a conversation with Paulo Rodriguez, Head of International Sales for Vanta, Former head of B2B growth strategy at Dropbox, on why the future of Enterprise PLG/PLS resides in a symbiotic co-existence between Pre/Post Sales Engineering and Product Automation.

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    38 mins
  • What is wrong with customer success and how to fix it?
    Mar 20 2023

    Alok Shukla, in a conversation with Gilad Shriki, Co-founder of Descope, Former VP of Customer Success at Palo Alto Networks, on why customer success tools of today are problematic and why the future of customer success lies in data-driven automation.

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    27 mins
  • Data Driven Sales Engineering | Varun Badhwar - Endor Labs , Palo Alto Networks
    Feb 13 2023

    Alok Shukla, in a conversation with Varun Badhwar, Founder/CEO of Endor Labs, Former GM/SVP of Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, on why being data-driven and product led is the future of enterprise sales engineering.

    An alumnus of USC, Varun currently serves as the Founder & CEO of Endor Labs, a startup focused on software supply chain security.

    Before starting Endor Labs, Varun was the founding GM and SVP of Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, where he built the cloud-native security business from scratch to over $300M ARR in 3 years. Varun joined Palo Alto Networks by acquiring RedLock, a CSPM startup he founded three years prior and sold for over $230M.


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    27 mins
  • Sales Engineering is Customer Success Engineering | Rubrik's Alok Agrawal
    Jan 22 2023

    Alok Shukla, in a conversation with Alok Agrawal, VP of Global Sales Engineering at Rubrik.

    👉 Why Sales Engineering and Customer Success Engineering should be the same role.
    👉 Who is the future sales engineer?

    Alok Shukla is CEO and Co-founder at FunnelStory.

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    33 mins
  • Are sales engineers relevant in a product led enterprise?
    Jan 10 2023

    Alok Shukla, in a conversation with Paul Steen and James Still, on sales engineers and their ability to forecast the success or failure of a sales opportunity, plus how sales engineers are relevant in a product-led enterprise.

    Paul Steen is Principal Sales Engineer at Imperva, and James Still ran North America for marquee sales companies such as Imperva and Coverity.

    Alok Shukla is CEO and Co-founder at FunnelStory.

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    44 mins
  • Flashback - How Demisto turbo-charged sales engineering with data and automation?
    Dec 13 2022

    Alok Shukla, in a conversation with Rishi Bhargava and Amir Khayat , to define sales engineering and figure out the relevancy of sales engineering in a product-led world.

    After Demisto's success, Rishi Bhargava (LinkedIn, Twitter) is onto his new startup Descope, focused on making user authentication and authorization easy for every application. You can get early access to the product here and Join the community here

    Amir Khayat is CEO and Co-founder of Vorlon (in Stealth) and previously Senior Director of Sales Engineering at Palo Alto Networks and Demisto.

    Alok Shukla is CEO and Co-founder at FunnelStory.

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    37 mins
  • So, What is Sales Engineering anyways?
    Nov 29 2022

    Alok Shukla, in a conversation with Pinkesh Shah and Scott Taschler, to define sales engineering and figure out the relevancy of sales engineering in a product-led world.

    Pinkesh Shah is the Executive Vice President of Products at Qualys, and Scott Taschler is a phenomenal sales engineer and currently a marketing guru.

    Alok Shukla is CEO and Co-founder at FunnelStory.

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    41 mins