I’m a sales and marketing leader who is endlessly curious about technology, business, and life which has inspired a career building large global businesses like the Trade Desk, Yahoo and Sports Illustrated as well as accelerating growth for innovative startups like BLADE and Citizen Sports. I have three personal goals that guide me every day: 1. Learn something new 2. Help my family in any way possible 3. Help people I care aboutThese are the foundation of my leadership style which is driven by curiosity, creativity, intelligence, empathy, servitude, value-add and always, always, being customer-centric. Those leadership elements, combined with my unique mix of startup and big-company experience have resulted in me leading diverse, talented teams to generate $1.7 billion+ and 3x growth in my five most recent roles. Some of the accomplishments I’m most proud: * I grew up counting and sorting coins, so generating close to $2 billion in sales in my career is a big number (that’s a lot of nickels and dimes) * Moving the needle on revenue and culture at globally respected brands like Yahoo and Sports Illustrated * Most people don’t win the Superbowl or World Series once, let alone twice, but being a part of two successful startups (BLADE and Citizen Sports) that were acquired/IPO’d is the business equivalent * Our team at Citizen Sports was one of the best ever assembled, and being acquired by Yahoo taught me how to hold to the entrepreneurial spirit while running billion-dollar businesses * Having lived in NY all my life, relocating to London is something I dreamed of but never imagined would happen…I did it, and leaping out of my comfort zone taught me a lot about life, leadership and diversity * Seeing many of the people I've managed excel in their careers gives me pride and inspires me to continue mentoring, advising, and coaching others * Earning $227 as a performing musician around NYC not only gave me the right to say I was a professional singer-songwriter, it also gave me a north-star as a leader striving to always inspire people to ’sing-along’ * There are many more, but as my wife says, “save it for the book”! Please reach out to me at patrick.albano@sidestreetventures.com if you need help or hit “Follow” above if you’d like to get updates on leadership, strategy and personal development.