Dave Gerhardt

Exit Five

I run Exit Five. We have a full-time team of six and we've built the top community for B2B marketers. Now 6,000+ members. We also have a popular podcast, newsletter, and run in-person events. It's a pretty cool business. I'm having fun.

Founder

Agency AI

Agency is the AI Agent for Customer Success

Advisor

Hatch

Hatch is a podcast and video production company.

GTMfund

Limited Partner

Paramark.com

Marketing measurement, experimentation, and forecasting for fast-growing businesses. Gain marketing ROI visibility with advanced statistics and machine learning — more accurate, comprehensive, and simpler than touch-based attribution.

Harvard Business School

Guest Lecturer

Drift

Chief Brand Officer

Privy

I joined Privy as CMO in December 2019, rebuilt the marketing team, and re-positioned the company as the leader in ecommerce marketing for small businesses in the Shopify ecosystem. Privy was acquired by Attentive for 9 figures in June of 2021. Privy is the #1 reviewed app for sales in the Shopify App Store. Used by 500,000+ small ecommerce brands around the world.

Chief Marketing Officer

I joined Drift in October 2015 as employee #8 & the first full-time marketer to jumpstart the company's marketing efforts. During my 4+ years at the company:

▪️50,000+ businesses used our product and we grew from $0 to eight-figures in revenue.

▪️Drift was profiled in the New York Times (Corner Office), TechCrunch, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and 100+ other publications.

▪️Drift was named to the Forbes Cloud 100, LinkedIn's Top 50 Startups, Entrepreneur's Top Company Cultures, 2018 SaaS Company of the Year by the New England Venture Capital Association, and a finalist for the Boston Business Journal’s Best Places to Work.

▪️We created the category of Conversational Marketing. 

▪️We created our annual conference HYPERGROWTH (which had 12,000+ marketing & sales people registered in two years and became one of the fastest growing business events in the world).

▪️We wrote the official book on Conversational Marketing published by Wiley (the book was an instant #1 new release on Amazon in the marketing, sales, and commerce categories and a top 20 business book in the United States).

▪️We created Seeking Wisdom, a popular podcast about personal and professional growth and grew to over 50,000 downloads/month. 

▪️I joined as Sr. Manager and was promoted to Director of Marketing September 2016, and then promoted to VP of Marketing February 2018.

VP of Marketing

Director of Marketing

Senior Marketing Manager

Tech In Boston

Tech In Boston is a podcast that I started in the spring of 2014 (bit.ly/tech-in-boston) and is all about sharing the stories of the people that are helping to build the Boston startup and tech community -- from CEO’s to investors to entrepreneurs and founders.

There's been over 60 episodes and 60,000 downloads to date. I’ve interviewed investors like Eric Paley, Maia Heymann, Rob Go, Jeff Bussgang, and Michael Skok. I’ve interviewed entrepreneurs like David Cancel, Diane Hessan, Mike Volpe, Mike Troiano, Chase Garbarino and TJ Parker. And I’ve interviewed journalists like Scott Kirsner, Kyle Alspach, and Dennis Keohane.

There’s also over 2,000 subscribers on the Tech In Boston email list — from people that work at companies like HubSpot, EverTrue, Localytics, CarGurus, PillPack, ArtLifting, LogMeIn, InVision, Twitter, HourlyNerd and more.

Creator

Now: I run Exit Five, the top community for B2B marketers. We have a full-time team of six and 5,000+ members in our private community. We also host a popular podcast, newsletter, and we run in-person events for marketers. You can find it all at exitfive.com

Before starting Exit Five: I spent my career in marketing and grew from PR intern to CMO. As a marketer, my work helped Drift to a $1B exit and Privy to a $100M+ exit. I've done a bunch of consulting and advising in the past, but 99% of my time right now is spent building Exit Five because we have incredible momentum and a unique opportunity to build a B2B community business.

Founder & CEO

Exit Five is a media company focused on B2B marketing. We help B2B marketers build successful careers through our content and community. Learn more at exitfive.com

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