JD

Jeanne DeWitt Grosser

Chief Business Officer

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

2016

  • Chief Business Officer

    2024

  • Global Head of Partnerships

    2022 - 2024

    Run global organization responsible for acquiring and developing Stripe's ecosystem of financial partnerships with banks and card networks, strategic technology partners, and business development.

  • Head of Americas Revenue & Growth

    2018 - 2022

    Ran all sales functions across the region including Sales Development, Account Executives, Account Managers, Solutions Architects, Professional Services, and Product Specialists. Launched GTM team in LatAm. Drove the launch of our Technical Sales, Product Specialist, and Product Incubation functions. Oversaw GTM integration of M&A globally.

  • Head of North America Sales

    2016 - 2018

    Built out Stripe's Acquisition Sales teams. Launched and built a uniquely data-driven Sales Development function, supported by deep Data Science investment. Launched and built Technical Deployment teams. Drove Stripe's expansion into Enterprise. Led major pricing initiatives driving hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental revenue.

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

  • Limited Partner

    2022

2023

  • Advisor

    2023

2022 - 2023

  • Advisor

    2022 - 2023

2022 - 2023

  • Advisor

    2022 - 2023

2019 - 2022

  • Advisor

    2019 - 2022

2014 - 2015

  • Chief Revenue Officer

    2014 - 2015

    Ran all go-to-market functions and drove 4x y/y revenue growth. Built team from ground up across SMB and Enterprise Sales, Product Marketing, Demand Generation, PR, and website design and development. With CEO, led Series C financing round, developed go-to-market strategy and revenue model. Personally closed and led initial deployment of multi-million dollar Fortune 500 deal.

2010 - 2014

  • Director of Google Workplace SMB & Mid-Market Sales, Americas

    2013 - 2014

    Ran sales team across new business acquisition and account management, as well as direct and channel sales. Launched account management and outbound sales functions, led complete overhaul of sales methodology, crafted to-go-market strategy for Brazil and Mexico.

  • Head of Google Workplace SMB & Mid-Market Sales - Japan & Asia Pacific

    2011 - 2013

    Selected for 18-month assignment to build teams in Japan and Asia Pacific and put growth strategy in place. Restructured all team functions and territories, launched team in India and led local market pricing changes, drove triple-digit year-on-year growth in first 12 months.

  • Google Workplace SMB Sales & Operations Senior Manager

    2010 - 2011

    Launched Small Business Sales and Sales Operations teams, and led channel sales team. Spearheaded changes to freemium strategy and drove product changes resulting in 3x weekly customer signups.

2009 - 2009

  • Product Management Intern, Emerging Technology Group

    2009 - 2009

    Led customer validation efforts for new product launch resulting in changes to pricing model and refinement of target customers. Drove cross-functional strategy development for multi-year plan to grow product line to $1 billion.