Shifting from founder-led sales to repeatable GTM, differentiating on responsiveness/customer support & the art vs. science of product building w/ Stephen Whitworth @ incident.io

Engineering Founders · 2025-02-13 · 46 min

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Stephen Whitworth (Co-Founder & CEO @ incident.io ) joins us to discuss strategically differentiating your product based on responsiveness / customer support and the shift from founder-led sales to repeatable / scaleable GTM. You’ll learn how they landed major logo companies like Netflix, Airbnb & Etsy and how you can apply that to your early enterprise customers. Plus the story behind their co-founder team transition from part-time to full-time, a product-market-fit “cheat code” that helped them decide on incident.io , how they generated 750 demo requests on launch, key qualities when hiring your first AEs to help scale yourself out of sales activities, and Stephen’s perspectives on the art vs. science of product building. ABOUT STEPHEN WHITWORTH Stephen is the co-founder and CEO of incident.io , where they're building incident management tooling that's so good, people will break things on purpose. A software engineer by training, he previously led engineering teams at Monzo, and co-founded Ravelin, a fraud detection startup. ABOUT INCIDENT.IO Incident.io provides a platform to help you better respond to and learn from incidents.

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