Jim Benton's Founder Journey: Building Iconic Teams

​Jim Benton's Founder Journey: Building Iconic Teams

​Lessons from the highs and lows of a founder's journey—how these experiences shaped Jim into the leader he is today. Jim is now dedicating his time to exactly this: building iconic teams.

 Agenda:
- 5:30 - 6:00 PM: Check-in, welcome, food & drinks
- 6:00 - 6:30 PM: Talk
- 6:30 - 6:45 PM: Q&A
- 6:45 - 7:30 PM: Mingle & Drinks

​Audience: StartX Spring Founders and Alumni

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About Jim:
Jim Benton is an accomplished technology leader recognized for forging innovative partnerships, driving scalable growth, and building iconic teams. In his recent CEO roles, he helped transform Apollo.io into a $1.6B GTM powerhouse and turned Chorus.ai into an industry standard for conversation intelligence, culminating in a $575M acquisition by ZoomInfo. Earlier in his career, he co-founded ClearSlide (raised $90M, acquired in 2017), orchestrated the Apple/Ticketmaster iTunes partnership with a single cold email to Steve Jobs, and built an innovative revenue approach at Evite.com—earning Wall Street Journal recognition.  Most recently, he delivered a public talk on building iconic teams at Business of Software in Raleigh, NC, and is a lead mentor at StatX.