EP33: Building and scaling network-based enterprise businesses with James McGillicuddy, former Head of Strategy at Carta ($7.4B) and COO SourceGraph ($2.6B)

Paradigm Shift

In this conversation, we speak with James McGillicuddy. James was previously Head of Strategy at Carta ($7.4B valuation) where he brought products like CartaX to market, and before that was the COO and early team member of SourceGraph — a universal code search tool company valued at $2.6B. He was also early at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce for $390M) and played college football for Stanford under Jim Harbaugh.
Some highlights: how James approached decisions on which early stage companies and founders to work with, lesson learned from building and scaling GTM at the zero to one stage from earliest days to unicorn-level for multiple companies, approach to building teams and why he loves it, and some really fun stories and lessons from playing college football with legendary coach Jim Harbaugh. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did.
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