app03 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:56:32 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://www.convergecoffee.co/tags/venture%20capital Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:45:00 -0500 Converge Coffee connects you with business experts who have succeeded by constantly pivoting and staying motivated from the lessons they learned. Every episode puts you right across the coffee table from your speaker. You'd be walking away with actionable insights you can actually use, not another list post no one implements. We dive deeper into the four go-to-market success cores that drive and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These four essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests bring backgrounds in sales, customer experience, RevOps, recruiting, data, and product because today, every business function grows through the same two forces: customers and employees converging back to those four cores. In three years, we built what was one of the world's top 1% downloaded podcasts with 250 human downloads per episode and an 80%+ consumption rate. en-us episodic Learn from Experts Like They Were Right Across a Coffee Table Sean Sullivan Converge Coffee connects you with business experts who have succeeded by constantly pivoting and staying motivated from the lessons they learned. Every episode puts you right across the coffee table from your speaker. You'd be walking away with actionable insights you can actually use, not another list post no one implements. We dive deeper into the four go-to-market success cores that drive and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These four essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests bring backgrounds in sales, customer experience, RevOps, recruiting, data, and product because today, every business function grows through the same two forces: customers and employees converging back to those four cores. In three years, we built what was one of the world's top 1% downloaded podcasts with 250 human downloads per episode and an 80%+ consumption rate. no marketing, messaging, design, technology, martech, marketing technology, customer experience, cx, buyer experience, employee experience, customer buying journey, marketing success, customer success, proving customer experience, proving cx, prove customer experience, prove cx, go to market operations, gtm ops, go to market, gtm, go to market strategy, gtm strategy, abm, account based marketing, abx, account based experience Sean Sullivan sean@convergecoffee.co https://www.convergecoffee.co/126 229c93b3-4c7d-49ad-af5d-328d1186b14f Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:45:00 -0500 Sean Sullivan 126 How Companies Do Not Need to Sacrifice Great Customer Experience for Profit full 6 Sean Sullivan In this episode, Sean sits down with Kasten Spethmann, business strategist and fractional executive. She is a retired professional windsurfer, recovering Venture Capitalist, non-conforming, near death surviving, adventure seeking, lifelong learning, and nomad entrepreneur. Kasten now coaches founders with tactical advice, tough love, and experiential insight. She hopes to inspire others to break societal expectations, stop sacrificing their true identity/calling and live by their own rules as they build exceptional businesses. They go deeper into her experiences and how over automation led to a downfall in doing right by customers. Kasten gives some great insights how to sustainably, scale companies while doing right by people. She even gives more insight how she co-built a company in a predatory industry and disrupted it. Her tone gives off a passionate, yet very good disruptive tone knowledge about creating wealth AND still doing right by people. She states that she is a sophisticated rebel. Kasten gets deep on how she was treated throughout her life and stuck to her who she has been to help others. More About Kasten. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kastenspethmann/ 28:19 no <p>In this episode, Sean sits down with Kasten Spethmann, business strategist and fractional executive. She is a retired professional windsurfer, recovering Venture Capitalist, non-conforming, near death surviving, adventure seeking, lifelong learning, and nomad entrepreneur. Kasten now coaches founders with tactical advice, tough love, and experiential insight. She hopes to inspire others to break societal expectations, stop sacrificing their true identity/calling and live by their own rules as they build exceptional businesses. They go deeper into her experiences and how over automation led to a downfall in doing right by customers. Kasten gives some great insights how to sustainably, scale companies while doing right by people. She even gives more insight how she co-built a company in a predatory industry and disrupted it. Her tone gives off a passionate, yet very good disruptive tone knowledge about creating wealth AND still doing right by people. She states that she is a sophisticated rebel. Kasten gets deep on how she was treated throughout her life and stuck to her who she has been to help others.<br> More About Kasten. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kastenspethmann/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kastenspethmann/</a> </p> kasten spethmann, customer experience, profit, venture capital, disruptor In this episode, Sean sits down with Kasten Spethmann, business strategist and fractional executive. She is a retired professional windsurfer, recovering Venture Capitalist, non-conforming, near death surviving, adventure seeking, lifelong learning, and nomad entrepreneur. Kasten now coaches founders with tactical advice, tough love, and experiential insight. She hopes to inspire others to break societal expectations, stop sacrificing their true identity/calling and live by their own rules as they build exceptional businesses. They go deeper into her experiences and how over automation led to a downfall in doing right by customers. Kasten gives some great insights how to sustainably, scale companies while doing right by people. She even gives more insight how she co-built a company in a predatory industry and disrupted it. Her tone gives off a passionate, yet very good disruptive tone knowledge about creating wealth AND still doing right by people. She states that she is a sophisticated rebel. Kasten gets deep on how she was treated throughout her life and stuck to her who she has been to help others.
More About Kasten. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kastenspethmann/

]]> In this episode, Sean sits down with Kasten Spethmann, business strategist and fractional executive. She is a retired professional windsurfer, recovering Venture Capitalist, non-conforming, near death surviving, adventure seeking, lifelong learning, and nomad entrepreneur. Kasten now coaches founders with tactical advice, tough love, and experiential insight. She hopes to inspire others to break societal expectations, stop sacrificing their true identity/calling and live by their own rules as they build exceptional businesses. They go deeper into her experiences and how over automation led to a downfall in doing right by customers. Kasten gives some great insights how to sustainably, scale companies while doing right by people. She even gives more insight how she co-built a company in a predatory industry and disrupted it. Her tone gives off a passionate, yet very good disruptive tone knowledge about creating wealth AND still doing right by people. She states that she is a sophisticated rebel. Kasten gets deep on how she was treated throughout her life and stuck to her who she has been to help others.
More About Kasten. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kastenspethmann/

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