App Etc.

Chris Federspiel - CEO Blackthorn

Episode Summary

Today I am speaking with Chris Federspiel, the Founder and CEO of Blackthorn, about starting Blackthorn and his background that set him up for starting the business. We then move on to scaling Blackthorn including when he made the first sales hire and how Chris approached partnering with Salesforce and SIs based on his experience of ecosystem.

Episode Notes

Welcome to AppEtc. Conversations with founders and leaders of product businesses in the Salesforce Ecosystem. 

Today I am speaking with Chris Federspiel, the Founder and CEO of Blackthorn. Blackthorn builds Salesforce-native apps that make processing payments and managing events efficiently and ridiculously easy for businesses of all shapes and sizes. 

I am talking with Chris about starting Blackthorn and his background that set him up for starting the business. We then move on to scaling Blackthorn including when he made the first sales hire and how Chris approached partnering with Salesforce and SIs based on his experience of ecosystem.

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