About
David is the CEO and co-founder of Pardot marketing automation.
David has been an entrepreneur for over a decade. In late 2000, David founded Hannon Hill, which was recognized as the 247th fastest growing company in the U.S. by Inc. magazine as part of the Inc. 500 awards. In late 2006, David co-founded Pardot, which was recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as the fastest growing technology company in 2010 and the third fastest-growing company in all of Atlanta that same year. David also co-founded Clickscape real estate technology (clickscape.com), Rigor web performance management (rigor.com), and SalesLoft sales intelligence (salesloft.com).
David serves on the board of the Atlanta chapter of the Entrepreneur’s Organization and on the board of Venture Atlanta. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, David earned a bachelor of science degree in economics from Duke University and studied at the London School of Economics. David blogs at DavidCummings.org, tweets at (@davidcummings), and is co-author of the book Think Outside the Inbox as well as a second book to be published in 2012.
David,
I’m impressed with the content of your blogs and success of putting together Shotput Ventures.
Your name first came up on the StartupLounge podcast discussing Shotput. (I am a sponsor of StartupLounge and good friends with Burkett and Blake.) I noticed in your interview that you went to Duke, as did I (’91).
Your comments about the Medici Center are most interesting. I have been in conversation with John Perlman (who has the building under contract) regarding another potential tenant. Medici is a great idea and I hope it works out.
Have you heard of DukeGen? I had to miss the recent meeting, but would be curious to get your thoughts.
Take care and Go Duke!
Jason Jones
Hello,
Just reading about your company from the link in MarketingProf.
Wandering about company name Pardot – in Latvian language it means “to sell”. Was it intentionally or there is some other background?
Just curious,
U.C.
Jason – thanks for the kind words. Yes, I think DukeGEN is a great iniative and I’m looking forward to being a part of it in the future.
Uldis – yes, you’re exactly right. We were looking for sales and marketing words in other languages and that’s how we came up with the name Pardot.
David, in a post some time back you mentioned a “slimmed down” version of RH OPSP. Did you ever complete that and are you willing to share ?
I’d enjoy a copy if you are.
Kind Regards,
Jim
Thanks for the spreadsheet! Very useful as we plan our 2012 marketing activities.