References
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google, Former VP Engineering Sun Microsystems | LinkedIn >
Chris was the first to quantify the exact points where usability of workstations suffered due to mismatches between OS paging behavior and real-time visual interaction — a threshold no one had even defined before.
His pioneering human factors study at Sun Microsystems turned vague user frustrations into hard engineering data, enabling system architects to redesign for interactive workloads rather than batch logic.
That insight didn’t just improve usability — it fundamentally changed how we engineered the software stack for modern visual computing, inspiring changes for Solaris OS.
John Cordier
CEO of Epistemix | LinkedIn >
Chris distills what usually takes years of hard-earned operating and investing experience into clear, actionable guidance for founders.
Getting Funded equips early-stage entrepreneurs with the clarity and tools to execute effectively from Seed to Series A and B funding.
It’s the kind of book you’ll wish you had from day one — a future classic every startup founder will be talking about.
Carol Leanman
former CEO of Axonify | LinkedIn >
Chris’s CRM Reveal process enabled us to isolate and compare our pockets of strength and weakness across many combinations of industries and product use cases for selling our SaaS separate product SKUs: by time, efficiency and value. This enabled us to evolve our sales qualification criteria and sales rep assignments for an effectiveness focus, and to increase the speed and TCV separately to amplify revenue growth. With changes in place and new evidence of results, we were able to obtain significant step up in Series B funding.