RB

Robert Brooks Iv

Founding Team @ Lambda

San Francisco, California

Work Experience

2018

  • Founding Team & VP, Sales

    2018

    100% focused on empowering the leaders of Lambda’s Sales, Marketing & Customer Success teams.

  • Advisor/Angel

    2020

    Advising & investing in seed stage deeptech startups: uptothewrite.com Writing for technical founders: uptothewrite.substack.com

2016 - 2018

  • Head of Sales

    2016 - 2018

    Tempo raised $75M in venture funding and went public on NASDAQ: https://www.tempoautomation.com/news/tempo-ace-merger/ Tempo builds software to automate robots. I came to work every day inspired by the customers we served - companies building cutting-edge robotics, satellites, rockets, self-driving cars, internet of things, drones, and much more. - First Sales Hire - Developed GTM Strategy focused on Enterprise/Fortune 500 Sales - Grew company revenue 500%+ in the first year - Closed & managed $X,000,000 enterprise partnerships - Built sales dashboards & sales tech stack - Built BDR & AE team, metrics & strategy - Built & executed sales hiring, onboarding processes & training material - Report to Founder/VP of Product

2012 - 2016

  • Sales Team Lead

    2012 - 2016

    Stack Overflow raised $68M in venture funding and was acquired for $1.8 Billion in 2021: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosus-acquires-stack-overflow Stack Overflow is the largest online community of software developers in the world. I partnered with startups & Fortune 500 companies to promote what they were building with software & how they recruited on Stack Overflow. Quick personal stats: - Closed the largest New Business deal in the history of the company - Lead #1 team on West Coast in 2013 & 2014, 8-12 AEs, Player/Coach - Finished as a top 10 sales executive in 2014 & 2015 - Promoted 4x in under 4 years

2010 - 2012

  • Registered Stock Broker

    2010 - 2012

    Series 7 & 63 certified. Advanced Broker: Technical Analysis & Options Trading. In the 95th percentile for lead conversions throughout the entire company. Placed on the outbound portfolio consolidation team to work with high-net-worth clientele ($10M+) and bring assets into Schwab.