The background

Better together....

In 2014 I kicked off a Salesforce practice on my own.

There was so much I did not know.  There were lots of mistakes I made that slowed us down and cost us revenue and profit.

Over time I met a group of like minded people on the same journey and we started exchanging stories and learning from each other.

My initial thought was that these people were my competition.  I wanted to keep things to myself.    However, over time I realised there is space for all of us and that a spirit of co-opetition made more sense.  Together we all ended up stronger.

Ultimately the practice I started grew to over 100 people after 8 years and it was acquired.

The Partner Foundry is designed to help facilitate that same kind of experience but also fill in some of the gaps:  

• Benchmarking is a key element that most of us would benefit from but there has not been an easy way to achieve this.   

• Tech companies do a great job of bringing us together around their agenda but often the agenda Partners have can have different elements.

• There is plenty of technical support and enablement but not always the support to run and grow a business.

• There are gaps in training including leadership, consulting, sales and other soft skills.

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Ultimately it is about bringing together groups of like minded founders who are on the same journey to enable everyone to thrive.

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Andrew France.