Founders Fund's Partner, Brex's ex - CRO, Sam Blond | Investing in SaaS companies; Career in Sales

Sam Blond is a Partner at Founders Fund, a top Venture Capital firm founded by Peter Thiel and other Co-Founders of PayPal. Founders Fund’s total assets under management are around $11 Billion (according to TechCrunch 2022), and their portfolio includes SpaceX, Palantir, Stripe, Facebook, Airbnb, and Spotify, among others. Before joining Founders Fund, Sam was the former Chief Revenue Officer at Brex, overseeing revenue growth from less than $1M to several hundred million dollars of annualized revenue. Sam joined the company before its official launch, and when he left four years later, the company was valued at $12.5B. Before Brex, Sam was the VP of Sales at Zenefits, overseeing revenue growth from less than $1M to $70M of ARR in two years. He joined the company pre-Series A as employee number 18. When he left, the business was over 1500 employees and was valued at $4.5B.
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