Sandi Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Skilljar, the leading customer education platform used by enterprises like Cisco and Verizon to accelerate product adoption and deepen customer engagement. She has raised over $50M in venture capital from Insight Partners, Mayfield, and Trilogy Equity Partners. Prior to Skilljar, she led product management teams at Amazon. Sandi has bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
In this episode, we get into:
Why it was better for Sandi to throw herself off the deep end without an idea
How she identified a space that she could relate to and truly love
Why she believes that opportunity always exists as an entrepreneur, you just have to go find it
The importance of great customer discovery and how it can actually lead to customers
How the enemy in a startup is time and that with a cofounder, you can make twice as much progress
Her biggest time saving hack
The internal debate whether to pay yourself
Keys to finding investors who believe in you as a founder
Why you should seek feedback and listen, even if you don’t always agree
Why you, yes you, should learn how to code