Ishan Sharma

About

I'm a Cal alum interested in tech, government, and entrepreneurship. On the side, you can catch me hacking together side projects, longboarding down the Berkeley hills, drumming to classic rock, and watching hours of TED Talks. sharmaishan.com

Experience

• CEO, Founder, Chief Agent PM at SellScale
  Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

  Building Selix.AI, a virtual teammate that works in Slack to run your outbound motion 0->1. Think Claude Tag 100% for cold outbound. Backed by Pear.VC, Ovo, Browder Cap, Elad Gil, scouts from Sequoia, NEA, and KP, and founders from Athelas, DropBox, Forethought, Clay, and more.

• Business Operations at Athelas
  2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

  - First BizOps hire ($700m -> $7bn) - Growth marketer serving sales team of 60+ AEs and SDRs - Stood up V1 CSM team overseeing $MMs in revenue

• Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company
  2019 - 2021 · 2 yrs

  - Served F500 clients in Marketing / Sales / Growth - Case prep lead for UC Berkeley candidates

• Product Marketing Manager at Slack
  2018 - 2018 · Less than a year

  - Enterprise PMM - Quarter before IPO - Acquired by Salesforce

• Fellow at Lightspeed Venture Partners
  2017 - 2017 · Less than a year

  LSVP gave $65k to our team of four college freshmen to run a venture, learn from their partners, and grow as founders. Forever grateful to LSVP & John Vrionis (now at Unusual.VC)