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Firsthand: Six Years at Vanta, My Reinvention is the Only Constant

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I joined as the first product marketer back when the website was just a llama and a "request a demo" button. Six years later, Vanta is a $4.15B company, and I'm CMO. Here's how I've reinvented myself alongside the company.

The sun never came out the morning I got my dream job. I'd done my final-round Apple interview at 7 a.m. and knew it had gone well. I was just beginning to come down from the adrenaline high, so it took me a few minutes to notice the sky was still completely dark. By noon, wildfire smoke would choke out the sun and turn the Bay Area sky an otherworldly orange. I almost didn't hear my phone ring with the good news from Apple because the birds outside my window were going berserk. They couldn't tell if it was day or night. Inside, I also felt completely mixed up. I couldn't articulate why I…

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