Operations with Sean Lane

The world of operations isn’t always glamorous, but it’s the work that can make or break a company. Join Sean Lane every other Friday as he goes under the hood of how hypergrowth companies operate. Leave each episode with the operational tactics you need to scale growth and drive results at your company.

Operations with Sean Lane is a business podcast hosted by Sean Lane, with 145 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Sean Lane hosts Operations with Sean Lane, a business show with 145 episodes published.

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  Episode #144

  Demystifying Go-to-Market Efficiency with Go Nimbly CEO Jen Igartua

  Apr 4, 202536 minS0

  <p>What does it really take to make go-to-market teams more efficient? Our guest on this episode, Jen Igartua, works on answering this question every day. Jen is the CEO of Go Nimbly, a 60-person RevOps agency for Mid-Market & Enterprise SaaS companies. With an amazing roster of clients that includes Zendesk, Twilio, Snowflake, Intercom, and others, she and her team help companies solve what’s getting in the way of growth.</p><p><br></p><p>When you spend your days advising companies on how to operate more effectively, it’s easy to think you’ve seen it all. But not Je...

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  Episode #143

  The Untapped Potential of Partner Operations with Euler CEO Greg Portnoy

  Mar 31, 202545 minS0

  <p>Partnerships teams often feel like the forgotten child of the go-to-market org—under-resourced, misunderstood, and held to different standards than their direct sales counterparts. Greg Portnoy is out to change that.</p><p><br></p><p>Greg is the co-founder and CEO of Euler, the Home Base For Partnerships Teams. Drawing from his experience leading Partnerships teams at 4 different companies, Greg knows the difference between what works and what doesn't, and he's making the case for treating partnerships as a strategic business function—not just a side hustle for GTM.</p><p>In our conversation, we talk about why Part...

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  Episode #142

  AI Is the Tool, Not the Answer with Nara Logics CEO Jana Eggers (Live from Startup Week Boston)

  Mar 25, 202548 minS0

  <p>AI may be having a moment, but for Jana Eggers, it's been a career. Jana is the CEO of Nara Logics, an AI Advisor software company, and she's been building in AI long before it became a buzzword. In this episode live from Startup Boston Week, we talk about separating AI hype from utility, why AI should be built for subject matter experts (not just technical ones), and why she believes AI augments human intelligence, but doesn't mimic it. Also, stick around for one of the best lightning rounds we’ve ever done.</p><p>Like this episode? Be su...

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  Episode #141

  Accelerating Commercial Performance through AI with NVIDIA's Kelly Goles

  Feb 28, 202539 minS0

  <p>AI is revolutionizing every part of go-to-market strategy, and Nvidia’s Kelly Goles is at the forefront of that transformation. As the Manager of Revenue Marketing Operations at Nvidia (and winner of LeanData’s 2024 Ops Star of the Year award), Kelly has been tasked with using AI to accelerate commercial performance. </p><p>In our conversation, Kelly shares how her team saved 1,500 sales hours per week and quadrupled the number of leads their reps can work, she walks us through Nvidia’s AI-powered GTM framework, and explains how her team balances AI experimentation with real-world operational impact.</p><p>Like t...

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  Episode #140

  Rethinking Customer Success Playbooks with Mike Lemire (Live from Startup Week Boston)

  Feb 27, 202539 minS0

  <p>For a long time, post-sale teams haven’t received the attention they deserve. Companies have historically prioritized revenue growth over revenue protection, relying on human-intensive Customer Success models to keep customers happy. But the landscape is shifting—companies are rethinking how they structure their Customer Success teams, when and how to introduce Account Managers, and whether automation and scaled CS models can truly replace the human touch.</p><p>In this episode, we sit down with Mike Lemire, a seasoned Customer Success executive with experience at Toast, HubSpot, and Overjet, who now runs his own executive coaching firm, Harmonic Lead...

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