This Week in NET

From IBM and Cisco to Cloudflare: 30 Years in Enterprise Sales | Vinti Batiste

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Show Notes

In this episode of This Week in NET, Vinti Batiste, VP of Sales for US Enterprise at Cloudflare, shares her 30-year journey across IBM, Cisco, and now Cloudflare — and what it really means to be in enterprise sales.

Vinti talks about growing Cloudflare's enterprise business 80% year over year, the moment Michelle Zatlyn walked into her first all-hands, how she uses AI to prepare for customer meetings, and why sales is really a math problem.

This conversation is part of the Women of Cloudflare series.

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