I’m Jeroen from Salesflare and this is Founder Coffee.
Every two weeks, I have coffee with a different founder. We discuss our lives, our passions, what we’ve learned, … in an intimate interview, to get to know the person behind the company.
For this forty-sixth episode, I bosnia and herzegovina phone number data spoke with Steven Benson, founder and CEO of Badger Maps, a mapping platform and route planning app for field salespeople.
After studying geography and earning an MBA, Steven spent his entire career in field sales for companies such as IBM and HP, before selling the Google Maps API to businesses.
Having faced many mapping 7 questions before you start online marketing challenges, he realized there was a gap in the market for a mapping product for field salespeople. That’s how Badger Maps was born. Nearly nine years later, Steven now runs a self-funded business with a team of 75 people.
We talk about the power of podcasting, language study, three-hour bike rides on an exercise bike, and why he might move his business out of the Valley.
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Jeroen:
Hello, Steve. It’s a pleasure sms to data to have you on Founder Coffee.
Steven:
Jeroen, it’s a pleasure to be here.
Jeroen:
You are the co-founder of Badger Maps. For those who don’t know yet, what do you do?
Steven:
Badger Maps is a CRM add-on that helps field sales teams effectively. What we do for field sales teams is take data from their CRM system about their customers and put it on a map for their field salespeople, giving them the ability to plan their day, build a route, focus on the right customers. There’s a whole suite of tools for the outside salesperson or the field salesperson.