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How to make EACH REP on a Team Successful w/ Austin Stefani
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- Hunters and Unicorns
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- Aug 13, 2025
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Summary
In this episode of the East Coast Elite series, we sit down with Austin Stefani, CRO at DBT Labs, to discuss his career journey from EMC to his current role. austin shares his fundamental principles for sales leadership, emphasizing the importance of making every individual on the team successful. We learn about his focus on skill acquisition, the value of learning from challenges, and why empathy is crucial for both employees and customers. Austin breaks down his "playbook" for problem identification and how to apply it at various stages of a company's growth, from building a sales process and managing pipeline to scaling international teams. 🙌 Thanks to Our Sponsors! PGAI: https://www.getpg.ai Seller: https://selr.ai 🏹 Key Topics Covered 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - Flipping the org chart upside down 01:48 - The fundamental principles of sales 05:00 - Focusing on productivity 07:13 - Using frameworks for problem identification 09:17 - Translating a sales mindset to a leadership role 12:48 - Skill training and retention 18:56 - The benefits of non-linear career progression 24:00 - Learning through setbacks and hard times 32:27 - Why Austin chose to leave Rubrik for DBT 35:35 - Empathy as a core leadership trait 41:31 - The biggest challenges and learnings as a CRO 43:35 - The advantages of in-house company culture 49:55 - The playbook as a blueprint 💥 3 Biggest Lessons: Flipping the Org Chart: Leaders are overhead, and their primary job is to make every individual sales rep successful. Embrace the Hard Times: The only way to get through tough situations is through them, which is how you acquire new skills and become more resilient. Playbooks are Blueprints: A playbook is a framework for problem identification, not a step-by-step instruction manual to be applied universally.…