Stephanie Friedman Author

Stephanie Friedman is an investor, advisor, and startup executive with 20 years of go-to-market operations experience, with a focus on enterprise software. Previously, Friedman helped build three successful startups as an operator and revenue leader, and after one acquisition stayed on for two years to manage operations for a $380 million business as part of a public company. She joined her last startup, Xamarin, in 2012 as their first non-engineering hire and built the customer-facing organization from zero to 100 sales and customer success people and $0 to almost $50 million in run rate sales in less than four years. Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. Friedman has lived and worked in five countries, is fluent in five languages, and has an MBA in international business. She lives in San Francisco.