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James Underhill

James Underhill

Head of GTM Ops at Profound, formerly at MongoDB and Thrive Capital; GTM strategy, operations, and sales innovation expert.

Jun 30, 2026

9:21
Mm-hmm.
9:22
Right? I think that was a very, uh, organic kind of transition.
9:25
I hired our first...
9:27
So I have a very talented, uh, practitioner and leader now, Edgar C., uh, who I met because I posted a LinkedIn post, and I was, like, still in Union Square, and I, like, held a sign over my head and I was like, "Book a meeting with me and I'll pay you $1,000." And he, like, out- continued to outbound to me, and he sent me all these plays, and he eventually, like, sent me a cactus 'cause I have a-- um, I'm wearing, my LinkedIn photo is a fake, it's like an AI image of me as a cowboy.
9:57
Um, so he sent me a cactus, like, to the office.
10:00
And so we met, and I was like, "Oh, this kid's actually extremely talented." Uh, so Edgar started by doing the very traditional.
10:07
We had, we had, uh, hired a go-to-market, like, engineering, like ag- like a clay agency basically to run our top of funnel.

34 MINS LATER

43:59
Yep.

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