Pitching & consumer-based go-to-market lessons from ComicCon w/ Chris Pruett @ Jam

Episode notes

Chris Pruett, Co-Founder @ Jam, shares his leadership journey - transitioning from VPE @ LinkedIn to going all-in on Jam’s mission of entertaining curious minds. We also cover marketing & pitching lessons learned while introducing Jam at ComicCon, how audio storytelling creates an authentic, intimate experience for listeners; strategies for building consumer-based products vs. enterprise-based products; and more. ABOUT CHRIS PRUETT Chris Pruett (@curthipster) is the CTO and Co-Founder of Jam - a new way to listen to and share bite-sized audio. Delivered daily via text, Jams entertain curious minds in just a few minutes. Prior to Jam, he spent 9.5 years at LinkedIn, leading full-stack teams of 500+ engineers, where he transformed all parts of the consumer product, from the native mobile and web applications to the distributed systems that power the core platforms (feed, messaging, search, profile, notifications). "That led to me putting on a coffee backpack, and then I started talking to people. And then that was when the magic started happening in terms of what I learned.

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