A candid conversation with Sean Whiteley and Scott Beechuk about the founder/funder relationship and what to do when the roles are reversed and a venture capitalist is the one pitching YOU.

Qualified.com is a platform that facilitates instant sales conversations - one click to chat, voice, and video - to unlock an entirely new pipeline generation channel. Founder and president Sean Whiteley runs the Solutions Engineering team at Qualified. Previous to Qualified, Sean was the CEO of GetFeedback, an online-survey solution and the #1-rated survey application for Salesforce. Before that, Sean was senior vice president and general manager at Salesforce.

Scott Beechuk, partner at Norwest, brings more than 20 years of product, engineering, and SaaS expertise to his role on Norwest’s enterprise team. Scott most recently served as Senior Vice President of Product Management for Salesforce Service Cloud. While at Salesforce, he also served as Head of Engineering, Product, UX, and Documentation for Desk.com. Scott has been an active angel investor in both early-stage startups and venture funds.

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