Bob Tinker

Investor/CEO/Author. Metamorph Partners-operator-led buyouts. Founding CEO MobileIron $0-$150M and IPO. Author - Survival to Thrival & Change or Be Changed.

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

@united what the heck? UAL canceled direct flights SFO-CMH we bought—right around the total solar eclipse April 8. Other airlines are adding direct flights and UA cancels…seriously?! - a frustrated million miler customer.

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Unlocking growth is hard. Scaling growth to $100m is exhausting. Had a blast sharing *lessons learned* w/ the Work-Bench portfolio companies. Thank you @jerseejess and @fendien for the invitation. Content of talk below 👇

[Work-Bench @Work_Bench]

We recapped our #LFGNYC2022 keynote @BobTinker on the “3 Acts of Growth," a tactical breakdown on how to supercharge a GTM engine from $1M➡️$100M🚀

💻 Survive to PMF
🚀 Find GTM fit
🤓 Win adjacencies & unlearn old habits

His top takeaways & keynote👇
https://t.co/68V1omISCk

[Work-Bench @Work_Bench]

We recapped our #LFGNYC2022 keynote @BobTinker on the “3 Acts of Growth," a tactical breakdown on how to supercharge a GTM engine from $1M➡️$100M🚀

💻 Survive to PMF
🚀 Find GTM fit
🤓 Win adjacencies & unlearn old habits

His top takeaways & keynote👇
https://t.co/68V1omISCk

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Cutting Edge + Much Needed. Formally verified secured software base---from academic dream to commercial & opensource reality. Instead of SW infra built on sand, SW can safely be run on BedRock. Bravo team BedRock.

[BedRock Systems @bedrocksystems]

BedRock Systems is proud to announce the launch of two new products! To make safety and security a verified reality we launch BedRock HyperVisor™ (BHV™) and BedRock Active Security™. https://t.co/C0ikkddNbW

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Excellent write-up on finding Go-To-Market Fit to unlock growth. Well done @pearvc. #GTMFit #Gotomarketfit

[Pear VC @pearvc]

The difference between building a company and building a product is finding go-to-market fit.

@BobTinker walks our Accelerator founders through his "surfing" framework: https://t.co/v3Cxgo4usH

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

@sarahfrier New term: "ZoomScaping" - Deliberately arranging the visual backdrop of your home office/desk for video calls. Even if the out of view stuff is a mess.

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Thoughtful post from @ibscribe . "GTM Fit is a game changer" for SaaS repeatability. And, "Every company is a series of big/small loops". Very true.

[ibrahim @ibscribe]

🧵wrote a post outlining the playbook for a consumerized enterprise product with horizontal SaaS distribution, and it had a bunch of underlying assumptions, known unknowns, and implicit trends that I’m still mulling over https://t.co/bVjVCJaCif

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Good list of sources from @blakethorne on product-led growth. Plus finding Go-to-market Fit.

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

Want an entire book? Check out @BobTinker and @taeheanahm's "Survival to Thrival"

More than just self-serve covered in here. But their entire premise of GTM-fit is really valuable & something more companies, self-serve or not, should think about.

https://t.co/HDAPJ7e4rI

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Thank you, Rita. Great discussion about the personal journey as a 1st time CEO. #changeorbechanged #survivaltothrival

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Thank you Tae Hea. We went thru 08 together. Its the real world battlescars (vs pithy platitudes) that we needed then and now.

[Tae Hea Nahm @taeheanahm]

My Survival to Thrival co-author @BobTinker, was on a @Work_Bench webinar with @jerseejess talking about how he launched MobileIron at the height of the 08 financial crisis and went on to grow its revenue to over $150M.

It's worth a watch!

https://t.co/CKbrk0fA29

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

@RPCraig @Kazanjy @scottsambucci @motoceo Honored to be on this list. Thank you, Rachael.

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Thank you April! We are all in this together. Honored that CoBC meant something to you. Credit also goes to the 10+ startup leaders who also contributed their stories of success, failure--and mostly importantly: *UN-learning*. #changeorbechanged https://t.co/KQwZaHcrCo

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Thank you @dcunni for the kind words about "Letter to myself as a 1st time CEO". Entreprenurs are in it together. Surprising Epilogue to the talk: it turned into two books

[Darren Cunningham @dcunni]

Really enjoyed this presentation from @BobTinker - must watch for tech entrepreneurs, founders, and early stage CEOs https://t.co/qJGlcBnFdv #innovation

[Matthew Tovbin @tovbinm]

Reading Survival to Thrival on page 92: “Takeaway advice: never let a good crisis go go waste” - brilliant! bookmarked @S2Thrival @BobTinker @taeheanahm

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Book2 "Change or Be Changed" is officially released..on shelves now! Tackles the silent struggle for entrepreneurs--how to keep up with your company as it grows? Theme is Un-Learning. Stories of success/failure from 12+ entrepreneurs. Check it out! https://t.co/jxdNEunBUN

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup - Book 2: Change or Be C... https://t.co/cTscCuj6yd via @amazon

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Check out what was on my front porch this am.  Our 2nd book "Change or Be Changed" is shipping from Amazon! Somehow feels so much more real when it shows up in a brown box. More here: https://t.co/QfGGEhg1Mc

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

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[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

This time with the link to Amazon! https://t.co/SPKm0O6hAg

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

This time with the link to Amazon! https://t.co/SPKm0O6hAg

[Bob Tinker @BobTinker]

Exactly 1wk before my 2nd book, Change or Be Changed, is published.We tackle the silent struggle for entrepreneurs...how to keep up w/ your company as it grows? Pre-orders open! Ships Jul9.Thank you to my coauthor @taeheanahm. #startups #entrepreneurs #survivaltothrival #newbooks

[Tae Hea Nahm @taeheanahm]

Exactly a week today before my second book, with co-author @BobTinker is published. Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup: Change or Be Changed is out on July 9th. Pre-orders are open! https://t.co/OGksNvN957 #startups #entrepreneurs #survivaltothrival #newbook