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Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 23, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 27:40 Chad Peets Uh, 10 years ago, I would sell on coming to work for a John McMahon company cause we're gonna train you
  • ▶ 43:39 Chris Degnan and he did any, any, when he didn't know about sales, that's why he brought in John McMahon to be on the board of Snowflake. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:18:22 Chad Peets I was trained by John McMahon.

20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets Jan 9, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 7:43 Chad Peets John McMahon is right there with Mike in terms of mentoring me over the years.
  • ▶ 13:58 Chad Peets Well, again, this goes back to, it's not exactly stress testing now, but the other thing you want to just measure for is grit, and John McBann taught me that a long time ago.
  • ▶ 34:25 Chad Peets But I can call guys like Dolly that have managed Europe, so even if I'm not calling a VP of EMEA, I will call guys like Dolly, Chris Degnan, John McMahon, a bunch of guys like that that I know and trust, and again, I bounce everything off…
  • ▶ 41:53 Chad Peets So I need reps that care about that as much as they do about money, and we can sell that, because if you look at the ecosystem that John McMahon and myself and some others have built, dude, you come spend four years with us.
  • ▶ 53:40 Chad Peets Again, when you, you've asked me about people that I work with, it's identifying people quickly that are like-minded, that value the same things that I value, and learning that there's not many of them in the world, the Mike Spizers of the…

20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg Dec 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:19 Harry Stebbings I got told a brilliant one the other day by the sales leader John McMahon. 2 times in the scene

20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan Oct 10, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:20 Chris Degnan And so I said to Mike, I need someone like a John McMahon on our board to 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:27 Chris Degnan I think I said earlier, I think John McMahon built a bench of world-class sales leaders, you know, at, at MongoDB.

20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment May 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:27 Eleonore Crespo And so for me, I did the list of, okay, these are the best companies coming from John McMahon, like the school of John McMahon. 2 times in the scene

Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 23, 2024 · 1 mention

Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 10, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 43:39 Chris Degnan What was incredibly helpful is having John McMahon on the board of Snowflake, because when Mike Spiser came in to Bob and said, Hey, you're going to go hire someone over Chris. 4 times in the scene

Mark Goldberger: The Ultimate Guide to Enterprise Sales | E1003 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 19, 2023 · 2 mentions

20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors Aug 10, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:07 Dev Ittycheria John McMahon, who's on our board, is probably the only person on the planet who's been the head of sales of five different public software companies.

20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building Oct 28, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:03 unnamed speaker But, you know, one of my favorite things from that was actually the, you know, which I learned from him years later, was the interview question that they asked at PTC where he had worked prior, which I thought was like one of the great…
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