What Does It Take to Achieve Hypergrowth?

Description

In this week’s episode, we talk with Jonathan Shelmerdine, VP Product at SentinelOne, about their unique success story.

SentinelOne’s path to hypergrowth looks easy from the outside, but like any successful business growth story, hard decisions had to be made at multiple stages.

Jonathan highlights the importance of getting your strategy right – especially in a sector as competitive as B2B SaaS – but also of hiring the right people and having leaders “who know what good looks like”.  As he says, “you don’t become the Golden State Warriors without having the right team, the right strategy, the right approach, and the right balance between what you invest in”.

Tracking the journey from start-up to success, Jonathan acknowledges that there’s a tipping point where companies have to change and even let go of some of the attributes that got them that far in the first place. So how do you phase out the entrepreneurship, innovation, and ability “to do things your way” and adapt to being a bigger beast?   

Achieving hypergrowth is one thing. But what do you do next? Jonathan’s got an insight into how to sail a steady ship, while also forging forward.

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Bio

Yonni Shelmerdine leads EDR & XDR at SentinelOne. Prior to SentinelOne, Yonni held product leadership roles at Cybereason, Checkpoint, Lacoon, and several other early-stage start-ups.

Yonni is also a veteran of an Elite Intelligence unit in the IDF, winning multiple awards for distinguished service.