Flockjay

Kelly was instrumental in my sales training. Not only is she a joy to be around but she helped build the fundamentals that I relied upon for success at Intercom and now at Asana. She understands the tech space as a whole and helped me find me place in it :).

I have signed up for flockjay thanks to ProductHunt and had to wait 2 weeks before receiving something, which I can understand. But they never really contact you, or truly confirm anything. You only have a few indications about when and how it should happen.

Another bad thing that happened to me is that, after receiving an invitation, answering to their survey, waiting and waiting, I finally receive an email saying that I got kicked out of the group I was in. And two days later got an email from flockjay saying that I wasn't eligible to be part of it since they can only accept applicants that are eligible to work in the US.

I don't find it really profesionnal and fair to give hope to someone, asking a lot of things from this person and suddenly stoping everything because they can't look at my survey answers.

This is a cool idea, and builds on the rubble of similar models in the dev bootcamp space, which had great models but unfortunately faced the difficult truth that great dev skills just can't be learned in a matter of months.

Sales on the other hand, is a different story.

As a founder of a B2C/B2B tech company in SF, I've experienced first-hand the serious shortage of junior salespeople in the market. What we need are smart, driven people with a modicum of experience. We can't take folks from square zero, but we can take them from square one.. and it sounds like Flockjay can help get folks there.

Very excited to see your progress, guys. Be in touch once your first class is ready.

The team behind Flockjay is stacked with sales expertise. We have worked with Kelly to train our own sales reps and it was the most efficient and rewarding process. I am so excited to see the team at Flockjay scale such an important and valuable service. Can't imagine a more qualified and passionate team going after this problem.

As a women of color in tech, you often hear the rhetoric that there just aren't enough people of color in the candidate pool... "where do we find them?" FlockJay is solving an important and real problem of limited access to resources in underserved communities. They are demystifying the 'why don't we don't have more representation of other backgrounds in tech' by bringing resources/tools/money into communities.

I love that by having no up front cost, it enables folks for different socioeconomic backgrounds to apply. Sales, like anything else, is a learned skill and it's great to see that this company is not only making space for these voices, but actively supporting people's career growth. Who in turn, can also support their families and communities. It has a ripple effect.

A service like this has been long needed and I'm happy to see that incredible people like this have built a program that uplifts community. Kelly was an incredible mentor to me in my sales career and I'm excited to see the beauty of FlockJay come to fruition to provide a safe space for people to learn and grow their sales skills.

Kelly Schuur is the most incredible Sales leader, and I'd recommend anyone looking to start a career in Tech Sales pursue the opportunity to learn from her!