Steven Glod

Adopted from Korea as an infant, I built my first landscaping and snow removal business at age twelve—and sold it when I was twenty. I grew up in a suburb of Chicago surrounded by ‘lifers’ at Fortune 500 companies, and knew early on I wanted my career to look different. 

After graduating from Indiana University with a degree in Chemistry and a stint in derivatives trading, I dove into the world of startups. I co-founded the Rent Nest in 2012 (‘Evernote’ for apartments), which led me to a six-month stint living in Romania and a whole lot of learning. We wrapped up the business in 2014 (key takeaway: your tech infrastructure needs to be flawless), and I joined Machinio later that year.

During my time at Machinio (world’s largest search engine for used industrial assets), I helped scale the organization from a startup of 3 to a company of 100+ spanning the U.S., Europe, and Asia. I relocated to Berlin in 2016 to further scale international operations, and oversaw Machino’s acquisition by Liquidity Services in mid-2018.

I’m now investing a lot of my time into helping startups scale across multiple different continents and I’m always looking to network and connect with anyone passionate about startups, crypto, and SaaS sales.

Advisor & Investor

Next generation piggy banks - Educating our youth in crypto

Jerry 🤝 Vachaparambil

Land Lovers

Sales Partnership Manager

Delivery First

Consultant

Fivenomics/ESO Hub

Strategic partnerships and technology integration

Reizend Pvt Ltd

Sales Partnerships

The Cumin Club

TheCuminBowl.com
Soulful and healthy Indian bowls crafted to bring you flavors of India for under $10. Simple menu with plant-forward and vegan-friendly options.

General Manager

Mainstage Incubator

Startup & Investor Partnerships

tefoLOGIC Inc.

Co-Founder

FunnelBeam

Developed 100+ QA processes to streamline deliveries into CRMs: Salesforce, Marketo, Eloqua, & Hubspot
Internally implemented Freshdesk, Drift, created knowledge base, & customer stories on the website
Improved retention to 94% & strategic upsells to reach 115% OTE, but what makes me proud is hearing how customers boosted their sales 20-30%, seeing millions in revenue from accounts we highlighted, collaborating between Chicago, SF, & Pakistan to make it happen 

FunnelBeam's library of CRM/Marketing Automation System connectors, AKA Beams, automate high-performance sales and marketing operational workflows every day. In turn, FunnelBeam users maintain more effective account based sales and marketing teams!

Customer Success & Marketing Manager

Khosla Labs

Cultivated relationships with governments, F100 companies, banks, sports teams, etc. to grow an emerging technology incubator with a focus on AI, Blockchain, & digital identity. Khosla Labs incubated one of the few operationally profitable fin-techs in India. 

Advised company owners, management, lenders, creditors, and investors on data analytics. Hosted events packed with senior leaders, created viral content, and developed content strategy leading to over $2M in growth and an acqui-hire.

Served clients in a broad range of industries, including e-commerce, consumer products, retail, manufacturing, agriculture, automotive, aviation, entertainment, petroleum, apparel, construction, technology, software, and not-for-profit.

Customer Marketing & Partnerships Director

Clutch AI

Launched and named 4 products, Clutch.AI was ranked #5 on Product Hunt
Evaluated and implemented a CRM & Email Marketing tool to streamline communication
Wrote all content for blogs, website, brochures, and produced product training videos
Started customer success outreach including: blogs, website, brochures, etc.
Grew relationships with leading VCs, Sports Teams, and startups leveraging AI 
Established product integrations and alliances culminating in acquisition 

Clutch.AI was born at Khosla Labs to solve problems faced by incubated startups, and now large organizations. 

Artificial Intelligence used to be a black box; our tools foster a culture of citizen data scientists by democratizing the power of Machine Learning. 

With Clutch.AI, everyone with data can quickly see patterns in data, build interpretable predictive algorithms, and leverage previously ignored data to grow their business with our: 

Zero Code Machine Learning WorkBench, 
Credit Rating Engine, 
Background Verification Tools, & 
Clutch Consulting - which has built tools for 
AI-enabled Sales / Delivery Fleet Optimisation, and ancillary use cases.

AI Evangelist - Core Founding Team

Over the years, my background & experience has provided the greatest impact to founders I've worked with building technology, food, & cultural concepts.

My career after college started out learning about Sales and Account Management at Entertainment Cruises and Groupon. I helped build the Happiness team at one of India's 1st product-led growth companies, Recruiterbox, transitioned into sales, and moved to the India office in 2015. Launched Clutch.AI with Khosla Labs & tefoLOGIC, looked after customer success at Frrole.AI, & built out the restaurant vertical at The Cumin Club

Excited to help builders, entrepreneurs, & Entrepreneur Support Organizations. 

Outside of my professional interests, I love the culinary arts & meeting new people and cultures around the world

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