EPISODE · Oct 17, 2025 · 23 MIN
Dreamforce Special: CMO of Slack, Ryan Gavin
from Venture with Grace · host Grace Gong
Ryan Gavin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Slack and a seasoned business leader with over 25 years of experience driving growth, innovation, and go-to-market excellence across the tech industry. Before joining Slack, Ryan was the Chief Growth Officer at Convoy, where he led a $650M+ digital freight marketplace, improving margins by over 2000 basis points while scaling customer engagement with top global shippers. Earlier, Ryan held senior leadership roles at AWS and Microsoft—building the AI/ML business at AWS from the ground up and leading Microsoft’s Surface commercial business and Bing, where he helped bring the search engine to profitability and scale to 5 billion monthly searches. Across every role, Ryan has been known for his ability to unite product, engineering, and marketing teams to create new categories, transform markets, and build world-class organizations.Topics: Scaling Slack — what it takes to grow an already iconic brand in a changing SaaS landscape.AI, Product, and MarketingThe Go-To-Market Playbook for Builders#Leadership #GrowthStrategy #GoToMarket #AI #Slack #StartupLessons #MarketingLeadership
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Ryan Gavin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Slack and a seasoned business leader with over 25 years of experience driving growth, innovation, and go-to-market excellence across the tech industry. Before joining Slack, Ryan was the Chief Growth Officer at Convoy, where he led a $650M+ digital freight marketplace, improving margins by over 2000 basis points while scaling customer engagement with top global shippers. Earlier, Ryan held senior leadership roles at AWS and Microsoft—building the AI/ML business at AWS from the ground up and leading Microsoft’s Surface commercial business and Bing, where he helped bring the search engine to profitability and scale to 5 billion monthly searches. Across every role, Ryan has been known for his ability to unite product, engineering, and marketing teams to create new categories, transform markets, and build world-class organizations.Topics: Scaling Slack — what it takes to grow an already iconic brand in a changing SaaS landscape.AI, Product, and MarketingThe Go-To-Market Playbook for Builders#Leadership #GrowthStrategy #GoToMarket #AI #Slack #StartupLessons #MarketingLeadership
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