Lou Shipley: Founder-Led Sales, Product-Market Fit, and the Go-To-Market Playbook Behind a $565M Exit

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Most founders think they have a sales problem. According to Lou Shipley, they usually have a customer understanding problem. Lou is a 3x CEO, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, former CEO of Black Duck Software, and co-author of Unlikely Entrepreneurs. During his time at Black Duck, Lou repositioned the company from open-source compliance to open-source security, quadrupled revenue, and helped lead the company to a $565 million acquisition by Synopsys.