I joined Salescaling :o

How a random message on LinkedIn led me to join Salescaling

It’s November 2024, I was chilling at home while listening to a podcast, a spanish podcast called Spicy4tuna one of my favorite, and in that episode they went to Lanzadera, a spanish startup accelerator.

They interviewed four startups that were part of Lanzadera, and one of them was Salescaling, where they talked with Jon, the CEO of Salescaling. It was the chat I like the most among the four, the product he was presenting was interesting and useful, and Jon has a great charisma, even more when he was talking about his own product.

So I messaged them on LinkedIn, just a very casual and short message, one of those messages that nobody replies to.

And as I said no one replies to that message, until two weeks later, when I received an answer from Jon, just like a friend that forgets to reply to your message, he shared me his phone number, I was shocked, no one on LinkedIn gives their phone number, even more in the first message, and I loved that.

Then I texted him on WhatsApp, a casual and nice chat, he liked my profile and suggested me to text his partner Luis, the CTO of Salescaling.

I texted Luis, and same as Jon, I felt him like texting with a friend, he said he liked my GitHub activity, and offered to have a meet, and ofcourse I accepted.

From a podcast to a random message on LinkedIn, to a meet with the CTO of a startup. Life is funny.

Every single detail you do in life matters.

If that day I didn’t text them on LinkedIn, I would not be here today.

If I haven’t heard that podcast, I would not be writting this post.

Ok, so I was in the meet with Luis, and at first I didn’t know if that was an interview or just a chat, but I was excited. It’s funny that we talked for an hour about life, girls, and pretty much everything, and the last half hour he introduced me to the product and some technical stuff, and god damn he was good at explaining, and at coding aswell.

Then he told me: “Raúl I don’t know how do you code but I want you to join Salescaling”

Inside of me I was like: “Hell yeah, while dancing Danza Kuduro”

I loved these guys, I loved the product, of course I have to join.

Then he explained me what their roadmap was, they were about to enter a seed round, and planned to hire more people.

We ended up seeing each other every week talking about the product, about the company, and many other things, and so we become friends and colleagues after many hours of online meets.

And the story is quite long, like a mexican novel, but eventually I received the offer, just when the were able to hire me

Now is time to learn every corner of the product and put in the work to make it a success, see how this baby grows.