Ian McDonald

Sales leader

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2022
Angel investor🌍 United States
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40% of B2B salespeople are costly hiring mistakes. That devastates your revenue efficiency, annual model, and costs a ton of ARR. Mishiring gets even worse when you’re growing fast: Do you maintain your high talent bar or hit your aggressive hiring goals? Very hard to do both. Say hello to the BarRaiser Platform by QuotaSignal: Avoid expensive mis-hires that devastate your revenue plan. Our certified BarRaisers interview your sales candidates on your behalf so you can avoid expensive mis-hires and free yourself from hours of early stage interviews. Every interview is recorded, analyzed, and scored against your hiring profile. Your hiring managers can review the interviews, approve next steps, and accelerate the hiring process. All without wasting hours in dead-end early stage interviews. With the QuotaSignal Revenue BarRaiser platform, you improve your revenue efficiency in three ways: 1) Avoid costly mis-hires: close efficient revenue. Improve your quality and consistency of revenue hires so you can close more revenue and dramatically improve your financial efficiency. Stop the waste. Get a bigger return. 2) Accelerate hiring speed: maximize your market. Hiring managers’ busy calendars limit the talent pool and slow things down, leaving territories uncovered. Triple your interview capacity and fill headcount FAST. 3) Free up manager time: drive more revenue. Instead of ‘kissing frogs’ in early-stage interviews, your hiring managers free up tons of hours to ramp new reps, coach their existing team, and close more deals. Raise your revenue bar at www.quotasignal.com
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Nov 2022
40% of B2B salespeople are costly hiring mistakes. That devastates your revenue efficiency, annual model, and costs a ton of ARR. Mishiring gets even worse when you’re growing fast: Do you maintain your high talent bar or hit your aggressive hiring goals? Very hard to do both. Say hello to the BarRaiser Platform by QuotaSignal: Avoid expensive mis-hires that devastate your revenue plan. Our certified BarRaisers interview your sales candidates on your behalf so you can avoid expensive mis-hires and free yourself from hours of early stage interviews. Every interview is recorded, analyzed, and scored against your hiring profile. Your hiring managers can review the interviews, approve next steps, and accelerate the hiring process. All without wasting hours in dead-end early stage interviews. With the QuotaSignal Revenue BarRaiser platform, you improve your revenue efficiency in three ways: 1) Avoid costly mis-hires: close efficient revenue. Improve your quality and consistency of revenue hires so you can close more revenue and dramatically improve your financial efficiency. Stop the waste. Get a bigger return. 2) Accelerate hiring speed: maximize your market. Hiring managers’ busy calendars limit the talent pool and slow things down, leaving territories uncovered. Triple your interview capacity and fill headcount FAST. 3) Free up manager time: drive more revenue. Instead of ‘kissing frogs’ in early-stage interviews, your hiring managers free up tons of hours to ramp new reps, coach their existing team, and close more deals. Raise your revenue bar at www.quotasignal.com
2014
Business Developement Associate
Jul 2014
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