Tess Bloch

Spade, Co-Founder

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Career Highlights

• Started my career at Venmo and McKinsey - took a brief detour into politics (living on a corn farm in Iowa and working on a campaign)

• After a career break and reflecting on what I wanted to do next, became Chief of Staff / Head of Operations at Pinwheel

Current Focus

• Currently, a co-founder at Spade (a seed-stage transaction data enrichment company), focusing on anything and everything non-product/engineering

Hobbies

Trying new restaurants, Reading fiction, Volunteering on political campaigns

Talk to me about

• Operating systems and processes

• Recruiting & people/HR

• Seed-stage/founder-led sales

• Diversity equity & inclusion

I want to talk to you about

• Scaling up a sales function

• Early stage B2B marketing approaches

• Managing long sales cycles

• Building a high-performance culture