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Evernote's Global Sales Team Adopted Brisk.io Through Bottom-Up Usage

Hampus Jakobsson · How to Sell For $100m+ · Jan 21, 2016 · at 18:04

Hampus Jakobsson explains how bottom-up user adoption converted into enterprise contracts for his startup Brisk.io.

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“Like, Evernote was like that. We signed Evernote. It was one guy who found it in Zurich, who was like, this tool is crazy amazing. He turned around to his sales operation manager who happened to be visiting Zurich, where they have the European office. And she was like, this is mind-blowing. And she literally, like, picked up the phone and said, like, I want to buy this for my global sales team.”

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The claim, plainly

Evernote signed a contract with Brisk.io for its global sales team following bottom-up adoption by an individual sales representative in Zurich.

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Assessment

The claim asserts two distinct points: (1) that Evernote was signed as a commercial client by Brisk.io for its sales operations prior to January 2016, and (2) that this deal originated specifically from bottom-up adoption by an individual sales representative in Evernote's Zurich office that converted into a global rollout. Multiple contemporaneous 2015 publications (including CustomerThink, American Business Magazine, and Alister & Paine) and 2016 reporting by Rapidus confirm that Evernote was indeed an active commercial client of Brisk.io prior to 2016. However, public records and third-party corporate case studies do not independently corroborate the internal narrative regarding the Zurich sales representative origin, which is documented only through statements by then-CEO Hampus Jakobsson.

An author biography in CustomerThink (April 9, 2015) and an article in American Business Magazine (July 27, 2015) documented Evernote as an active commercial customer using Brisk's sales process software.
Swedish business publication Rapidus reported on June 2, 2016, that Brisk had secured major corporate clients in the United States, specifically citing Evernote.
The specific internal bottom-up sales mechanism involving an individual sales representative in Zurich remains solely attested by then-CEO Hampus Jakobsson without independent public case study documentation.

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[1] saasclub.io [2] rapidus.se [3] alisterpaine.com [4] americanbusinessmag.com [5] salesflare.com [6] customerthink.com [7] quora.com

"Brisk.io" "case study" OR "customer" "Evernote" "Evernote" "Brisk.io" OR "Brisk" "Hampus Jakobsson"

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