Sharon Gillenwater

Scaling Without Selling Your Soul: The Story Behind a $25M Exit

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For more than two decades, I've been at the center of the executive engagement space…

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First as the the founder and CEO of Boardroom Insiders, the go-to intelligence platform for GTM teams selling to the C-suite, and now as Co-Founder and CEO of ExecutiveIQ, the AI-native platform built for the next generation of executive engagement leaders.

The bootstrapped founder story is part of it too. Very few people have built, scaled, and sold a multi-million dollar company with little to no outside funding — and done it without compromising their values or burning out their team. I wrote about that journey in Scaling With Soul: How I Built and Sold a $25 Million Tech Company Without Being an A**hole — the unvarnished truth about what it actually takes.

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“ I wrote about that journey in Scaling With Soul: How I Built and Sold a $25 Million Tech Company Without Being an A**hole — the unvarnished truth about what it actually takes.”

- Sharon Gillenwater