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Greg Skloot reposted thisGreg Skloot reposted this🍴Taste of Nashville is back—September 25th at Riverside Revival! Join us for one of our signature events, where Nashville’s incredible food and drink scene comes together with an even bigger purpose: supporting underserved youth across Middle Tennessee. ✨ Amazing food & drinks ✨ Live music & community ✨ Silent auction & philanthropy Every dollar raised goes directly to the Phoenix Club’s mission of youth-focused venture philanthropy and leadership development. 🎟️ Tickets are on sale now → https://lnkd.in/eTpxmn8W One night. Nashville food. Big impact. Don’t miss it. #TasteOfNashville #PhoenixClub #NashvilleEvents #LeadershipThroughService
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Greg Skloot shared thisTeam offsites are incredibly valuable: from community building to providing clarity and alignment on business goals. But let's face it, they are also A LOT to plan, expensive, and logistically complex. At the same time, they are really important to get right. After planning and executing 10+ offsites in the last few years, here is my playbook for making your next one a success. Big shout out to Kirsten Newbold-Knipp who provided invaluable insights on this topic that are included in the article.
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Greg Skloot shared thisWhen a company is ready to transition from pure founder-led and word-of-mouth sales to building a sales team, I've noticed that many entrepreneurs and operators (my past self included) make a common but critical mistake: We try to start doing sales before we have marketing. This article makes the case for why the order of operations should always be marketing first, and then sales.
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Greg Skloot shared thisWe're growing our engineering team! Crystal is looking for another Full Stack Software Engineer to join Tommy Morgan, James Miltenberger and Isaac Wuest to help build the the largest and most accurate personality platform in the world. Please feel free to reach out to myself or Tommy if you'd like to learn more!Greg Skloot shared thisThe team at Crystal is fantastic - and it needs to grow! We need an awesome full-stack engineer to join our engineering team. We need to execute on a new product strategy and also get ready to double the team next year, so there's a lot of great potential to have huge impact! It's also a fully remote role with the option to work from anywhere in the continental US. Which I definitely consider a plus :) If you or someone you know is interested in a role like this at a very exciting startup, please get in touch - I'd love to chat about the opportunity and see if we could be a good fit.
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Greg Skloot shared thisWe are always thinking about engaging experiences for our remote team to celebrate wins or just spend time together. We just tried a really cool one, Luna Park, a new virtual experience platform. It is a live-hosted interactive game show which was a great way for our team to bond and have fun together, all streaming in from different corners of the country. Thanks for setting us up, Benjamin Anderson! Anyone with a remote team, reach out to Ben so you can try it out too.
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Greg Skloot shared thisAs we build and scale Crystal over the next few years, our product & engineering team is growing along with it. We're building the largest, most accurate personality platform in the world - it's a huge project that requires close collaboration between data analysis, machine learning, and social science. We're looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the overall technical direction for Crystal. Details are below -- please reach out if you'd like to chat about the role!
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👏 Well deserved, Neil!
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Kirsten A. everything I wrote about in this post was only possible because of all the ops work you did on our team, so thank you!
And Ryan Winemiller, there is an easter egg in this article that references you, if you can find it ;)
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Very well said Andreas W.! That was exactly the point I was going for -- both are critical, it's the order of operations that matters.
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Greg Skloot liked thisGreg Skloot liked thisThe '25 annual report is out now! We welcome anyone who wants to learn more about our mission, grants, volunteering, programs and events. This document was produced by Secretary Chris Keenan and Secretary Elect Christian Cox in conjunction with our board. Visit our website for the full document, the link will be in the comments!
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Greg Skloot liked thisGreg Skloot liked thisWe are proud to announce the 2026 board and look forward to sharing our activities throughout the year! 2026 marks our 25th year as an organization with the goal of helping underserved youth in middle Tennessee and developing members into leaders. If you are interested in learning more about the club, please check out our website. The 2025 annual report is available if you want to go into more detail. President - Sam High President-Elect - Larry Kloess Past-President - Greg Skloot Secretary - Chris Keenan Secretary Elect - Christian Cox Treasurer - Kyle Pilcher Treasurer Elect - Renato Antun VP Philanthropy - Carson West, CFA, CAIA VP Elect - Philanthropy - Nathan Frigge, CFP® VP Development - Chris Brophy, CFP® VP Elect - Development - Jacob Delk VP Leadership Development - Samuel Oliver VP Elect - Leadership Development - Grant Altshuler Technology Chair - Alex Nicholson VP New Membership - Dane Brunett VP Programs - Dillon Eakes VP Marketing - Robert Ledet Leadership Dinner Chair - Brian Nock Volunteering Chair - Patrick Kapla DEI Chair - B. Cisco Carter Alumni Relations Chair - Travis Guerra
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Greg Skloot liked thisGreg Skloot liked this🎄 What a night and what a year. We wrapped up the year celebrating together at our PCON Holiday Party and reflecting on a season filled with meaning, impact, and momentum. Thank you to our 2025 President, Greg Skloot for leading us well this year! We are especially excited to welcome the Class of 2026, our largest class in Phoenix Club history. The future of this organization has never felt stronger. A special congratulations to our newest Emeritus inductees, Rohit Padmanabhan, CFA and Walton Denton. Thank you both for your leadership, service, and lasting contributions to PCON and the youth we serve across Middle Tennessee. As we look ahead, we are grateful for a year defined by generosity, leadership, and community and energized for what’s next. Here’s to continuing the work together. 💙 #PhoenixClub #LeadershipThroughService #CommunityImpact #NashvilleLeadership #PCON2026
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Greg Skloot liked thisGreg Skloot liked thisWe’re still buzzing from Taste of Nashville 2025 💙 It’s one of our two marquee events that showcases exactly what the Phoenix Club of Nashville is all about: community, connection, and philanthropy that drives real impact. This year, we celebrated raising $41,000 for youth-focused nonprofits across Middle Tennessee, funding programs that provide housing, mentorship, education, and opportunity for the next generation of leaders. 🍴 Big flavors. 🎶 Big energy. 💙 Big impact. Great job to board chair Rob E. for throwing and amazing event! Huge thanks to our sponsors, members, and everyone who showed up to make it happen. A special shout out to Massive Mission for being our media sponsor and creating this video! 🗓️ Mark your calendars — Taste of Nashville returns in 2026, and it’s only getting bigger. #TasteOfNashville #PhoenixClub #LeadershipThroughService #YouthImpact #NashvilleEvents
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Greg Skloot reacted on thisGreg Skloot reacted on thisHad a pretty insightful day. My co-founder, Zikang Jiang, and I got invited to a Z Fellows event by Cory Levy and Baylor Adams Qasar Younis (founder of Applied Intuition and former COO at YC) shared some insightful thoughts. A few points that stuck with me: 1. Cofounders > Product You could be solving cancer, but if the founding team isn’t perfect, it won’t work. A team of 2–3 is the sweet spot. If you’re not hitting revenue in a year? It’s not the idea—it’s the team. Finding co-founders is like dating. 2. Fundraising reality check If you’ve pitched 10–20 investors and none invest, it’s time for a hard conversation with yourself. Is it the product? Is it you? Maybe it’s time to pivot… or get a fucking job. 3. No one knows what they're doing Every “expert” gives confident advice, often totally contradictory to the next guy. Don’t treat advice as absolute. Use it as direction. I'm gonna start building in public more. Moved to SF for the next few months. Comment if you wanna meet up.
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Greg Skloot liked thisGreg Skloot liked thisHey friends—quick favor. I’m looking to meet some great guys in their 20s, 30s and 40s here in Nashville—guys who are driven, curious, love connecting with people, and want to make a lasting, positive impact on our community. Through the The Phoenix Club of Nashville (PCON) I get to be part of a group that invests in each other’s growth while supporting local nonprofits doing incredible work for underserved youth in our city. It’s been one of the most meaningful things I’ve been part of and I’ve been honored this year to lead our new membership process and meet dozens of men who are living their lives with meaning, purpose and service at their core. If you know someone who should be in a group like this—or someone I’d just enjoy meeting—would you send them my way? Tag them below, shoot me a message, or make an intro. Grateful for the help—and excited to keep building something special. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about PCON, visit our website at https://lnkd.in/g3m_eGDD
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Cisco Certified Networking Associate
Cisco Systems
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CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
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Mission Bit
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Mission Bit is a non-profit that offers free programming classes taught by experienced engineers and entrepreneurs to San Francisco public school students.
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The Phoenix Club of Nashville
- Present 3 years 9 months
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The Phoenix Club of Nashville is a 100% volunteer-led 501(c)(3) organization with a dual mission to benefit under-served youth in Middle Tennessee and to develop our members into leaders in their community and in business.
I lead the technology strategy and implementation for the club, including all of the software tools we use to achieve our mission (i.e. member management system, CRM, etc).
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