Dan Lee
Recent posts focus on hiring & team, sales strategy and AI & automation.
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I’m excited to announce our biggest product launch ever (and my first-ever acting gig) Since releasing our AI Dialer 3 years ago, we’ve helped thousands of the world’s best sales teams generate billions in pipeline and…
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We hit our annual goal last week 🎉 Last year, I was pretty nervous about calling such a big number for 2025 Looking at the plan, it felt crazy to forecast more growth per month than our total ARR at the start of 2024…
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When I dropped out of Stanford 5 years ago, my mom was worried Fair enough... we were paying ourselves minimum wage and I didn't really have a plan Last week she came to watch me speak at Harvard Business School on a p…
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I never really understood Prez Club until today Coming back from Cancun with our 20 inaugural winners, I realize we've set a very high bar They put up some absurd numbers — $851K closed in a single quarter, 241% to ann…
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We just had the strongest quarter in Nooks history 📈 • 50% ARR growth since Jan • 5x AI Sequencing ARR • Signed 300 new customers • Closed our biggest ever 7-figure customer • Agent usage growing 3× MoM • ~50 incredibl…
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Avoid the most common and expensive mistake I see founders make with their first sales hire: Hiring just one rep. Instead, hire your first two reps at the same time. If one hire doesn't work out, you can lose almost a y…
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Excited to share some of the sales agent research Narahari Bharadwaj has been working on We started by copying what works for coding agents. Most of it didn't work Sales agents have to get three things right that codin…
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Our engineering team is more fun than yours We're re-allocating R&D budget to choreography. Think we need it?
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At Dreamforce Kelly and Cameron from Cursor shared how their team transitioned from manual sales tools to using Nooks + Grokbot So far they've seen qualified pipeline up 33% We love partnering with teams like Cursor be…
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We’ve found new grads & interns are our best recruiters Brian Wen interned last year and recently returned full-time. Jaansi Parsa joined us as an intern this August Both came from Berkeley’s MET program so they were w…
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Most of the news about Miro last week was around the price The part of Miro I know is the sales team In August, 12 of their AEs booked 43 meetings in 10 working days We've partnered with Miro since early 2025, when th…
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A lot of people ask me what it takes to be a sales leader at Nooks Josh Lieppe recently joined to lead our enterprise sales team, and here’s why he stood out: • He’s built A+ teams by being really thoughtful about what…
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We have our own version of Dario’s dilemma of "pacing the frontier" Do the products we build make humans just a tool for agents, or do they actually give humans more agency? Most AI products today are created around on…
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Nooks 3x’d revenue last year and will 3x revenue again this year But the bigger shift for me personally has been going from 30 to 300 people → At 30 people, my job was to find PMF and be hands-on-keyboard. → At 300 peo…
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Nooks 3x’d revenue last year and will 3x revenue again this year But the bigger shift for me personally has been going from 30 to 300 people → At 30 people, my job was to find PMF and be hands-on-keyboard. → At 300 peo…
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I’m excited to announce our first-ever acquisition! Nooks has acquired FullyRamped More importantly Aaron Marks, FullyRamped's founder/CEO, is joining the team to lead some of our most exciting new products (more on th…
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Founders often worry about losing touch as they scale As we've grown from 3 founders to almost 300 people, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to avoid that at Nooks So we've become increasingly intentional abo…
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I'm beyond excited to welcome Loreal Lynch to Nooks as our Chief Marketing Officer! I interviewed 60+ candidates over the last 8 months to find her. My most important criteria for the role was building an A+ marketing…
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I'm beyond excited to welcome Loreal Lynch to Nooks as our Chief Marketing Officer! I interviewed 60+ candidates over the last 8 months to find her. My most important criteria for the role was building an A+ marketing…
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Our first-ever marketing intern was just featured in the Wall Street Journal. We weren't even looking to hire a GTM intern. Talia Kusmirek came in through Kleiner Perkins, made the case for herself and it's been one of…
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