Vector

Co-Founder & CEO

Cargo (YC S23)

Investor & Advisor

reconfigured

Drift

VP of Pre-Sales

Sr. Director of Solutions Consulting

Manager, Solutions Consulting

Team Lead, Solutions Consulting

Sales Engineer

GrowthStack

GrowthStack is the future of revenue operations: an agency by design & technology at heart. We served as a critical resource to our customer's marketing/sales ops teams through consultancy but provided an underlying "Snowflake-like" ETL platform agnostic of their MAP/CRM design — allowing them to deploy revenue-generating playbooks and hit their number.

Founder (Acquired)

GoCable (Acquired by Pioneer)

GoCable.io is a revolutionary, cloud-based platform for early-stage subsea cable planning and development. Its launch was extremely disruptive to the subsea cable industry; changing the entire way organizations engage with consultants in these early stages. It was acquired by Pioneer and has been leveraged to design cable systems spanning continents such as the Southern Cross NEXT Cable System.

As the technical co-founder, I lead the ideation, architecture, and development of our geospatial analysis system—primarily; Javascript/jQuery, PHP, MySQL and heavy API implementation of Google Cloud Platform: Maps/Altitude.

Co-Founder & CTO (Acquired)

• Founding member of pilot team focused on implementing metrics to measure SE ROI and utilization
• Ultimately merged with Sales Enablement & Training teams to provide leadership insight into rep advancement
• Provided pre- and post-sales support for G5's rapidly growing customer base.
• Responsible for the technical relationships with prospects and worked internally with sales and product development to identify and communicate solutions to meet prospect business needs.  
• Acted as a resource for the sales, account management, front line services teams, and worked closely with other function departments within the company.

Solutions Engineer

United States Air Force

• Acted as sole technical liaison for 10+ major clients
• Prepared ad-hoc briefings to high-level decision makers using dynamic technology
• Conferred with customers and engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements

Mission Situation Awareness Analyst

• Led team of analysts providing situational awareness to OPIR real-time operators
• Supported mission execution of AFSPC $17.6B Space Based Infrared System 
• Executed on behalf of Director of National Intelligence, collaborating all-source technical intelligence from space-based assets

Senior Operations Intelligence Analyst

Building the future of pipegen 🚀

Hi 👋🏼 I'm Josh. Building, Vector to help marketers and sellers hypertarget the specific contacts engaging with their brand.

Previously:
- Built the SC team @ Drift from Series B - Vista acquisition 🦄
- Exited GrowthStack - A hybrid RevOps agency + SaaS company 🎉
- Exited GoCable - A rapid prototyping SaaS for subsea cables 🐙
- Served as an intel analyst in the USAF ✈️

Imposter syndrome stems from victors writing history.

When I was at Drift, I saw David Cancel as a brilliant visionary who saw a shift in the way businesses were buying from businesses. Reality: David is a brilliant visionary who tried dozens of different pivots before landing on the one that worked.

When I was at dinner with Josh Allen, he told me a story about how LogMeIn realized it's insight was handing a remote connection off to peer-to-peer technology. On that insight, they scaled to a mutli-product offering within months. Reality: Michael, Josh, and team grinded like crazy to have that realization.

Listening to an episode of How I Built This with Guy Raz, the founder of Roku had a vision of the "operating system for television". Reality: his first company crumbled under competition from Roku.

—

Hearing all these stories gives me imposter syndrome. Those guys were genius. They have something I don't.

But recently, I've started getting more outreach from early stage founders asking ME for advice.

As I share what's been working at Vector 👻 I realized something — I'm only sharing the insights... the a-ha moments... the END of the rainbow.

I was telling stories as if we had brilliant foresight.

The reality:
- Our wonderful brand = me bored on a weekend and thinking a ghost would be a good mascot for people who "ghost" your website
- Our incredible hires = me getting lucky and DM'ing people way above my weight class
- Our crazy growth = me taking a bet that website de-anon is going to be a commodity and giving it away for free in the early days

👆🏼 Everything that's worked for us has been a split decision experiment. In retrospect, those decisions have added up to something special and gives the APPEARANCE of deep foresight.

TL;DR — we all have imposter syndrome and all those "visionary stories" rarely started from an actual vision.

Joshua Perk 👻

My engineering team doesn't let me write much code these days.

[Something about "your code always breaks, blah, blah, blah..."] 🙄

But when I do, I ship the most impactful features.

Like this new loading animation for a massive upcoming product launch 🤫

Stay tuned!

What's your happy place?

For me, it's the bi-weekly tamales my wife picks up from an abuela on Facebook Marketplace after a long Friday.

I grew up in southern California. My dad (Robb) emblazoned his surfer town of Encinitas and local Mexican food into my brain. The smell of the ocean and foot-long Dodger dogs brings me right back.

The last few months have been BUSY:
- INBOUND
- Exit Five Drive
- A wedding (congrats Tara!!! 👰‍♀️)
- A big product launch 😉🤫👻

Amongst it all, it was easy to deprioritize the little things that bring happiness and nostalgia. Super thankful to my wife for keeping me grounded and remembering my happy place!

What's yours?? (and why?!)

Psst, hey... over here!

It's me, your favorite ghost, Ghosty (not that Casper punk 🙄)

I've taken over Josh's profile with an urgent message.

SEASON 2 OF "THIS MEETING COULD'VE BEEN A PODCAST" HAS BEEN RECORDED!

And. I. Looked. FABULOUS.

I didn't say much given, ya know, the dead thing. But I WORKED that camera!

Follow me to be the first to know when it drops! 👻

[Also... something BIG is coming next week... 🤫]

Did you see our Ghosty takeover yesterday? 👻

Were you confused? Excited?

Or were you a little JEALOUS of those suh-weet, suh-weet profile pics?

Well don't be.

In celebration of what's coming soon (🤫🤐) we launched the Vector Ghosty Generator so you can get in on the spooky festivities!

🔗 in comments!

P.S. Want to know our brand secret weapon? We use Pletor to generate all of our on-brand assets with perfectly trained design agents! They're powering the Ghosty Generator 🔥

Soooo Jess and I did a thing...

A thing = Jess forced me to discuss crazy stuff like "marketing budgets" and "having resources to accomplish my 'ridiculous' goals" 🙄

Anyways, we recorded it.

Season TWO of This Meeting Could've Been a Podcast is coming November 5th! 🔥

And no... this is NOT the big announcement... 6 more days 🙃🤫

Something wicked this way comes. 😈👻🎃

"98% of the people who click your ads won't fill out a form.

Just accept it. 🤷🏼‍♂️"

👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 BAD ADVICE!

First, not every ad HAS to lead to a form conversion. (Should I say it louder for the non-marketers in the back?)

We don't have to attribute everything and advertising often has a massive "awareness" advantage. You're creating recall for a buyer's time of need.

BUT, there is a better solution than just accepting 98% of ad spend will go uncaptured.

Steal Cindy Dubon's incredible play at Goldcast:
- De-anonymizing site visitors from ads
- Associating them to marketing's efforts
- And getting that info in front of sales!

Check out her full playbook! 🔗👇

(P.S. Something's coming one week from today 🤐)

[Wait 'til the end]

I'm not sure if Jess' attempt to be #HalloweenSpooky actually worked 🎃

IMO, Tim Davidson was giving "avoiding a weird person on the sidewalk" vibes; not scared vibes.

You know what IS scary though? Wasting ad spend on bad targeting conditions. 👇

P.S. Shoutout to Sara McNamara for walking backward for an hour to film these.

P.P.S. 5 days 😉

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