DataBased

Walk and Talk w/ Dan Watkins

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Somewhere in the world, Dan Watkins is walking. And talking. Dan helped build Qualtrics from 15 employees to a billion-dollar exit. Today he runs Databased, a revenue recruiting and consulting firm for VC-backed tech companies. Walk and Talk with Dan Watkins is 24 years of pattern recognition on hiring, building teams, growing revenue, and living with intention — delivered in five minutes, three times a week, from wherever Dan happens to be that day. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Your full-time hire might be someone else's too 16.03.2026

> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Book a meeting with Dan ⁠ Dan's walking through Amsterdam when a viral post catches his attention: a CEO publicly calling out an employee who had been secretly working full time for multiple companies simultaneously, collecting two executive-level salaries at once. The post racked up over 20 million views. Dan's seen this up close with clients, and he's here to tell you it's more common...

Politeness isn't kindness. It's just comfortable 13.03.2026

> ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Book a meeting with Dan This episode was recorded almost a year ago, but the message is just as sharp now: kindness and politeness are not the same thing, and confusing them is costing the people around you. Drawing on Kim Scott's concept of radical candor, Dan makes the case that real kindness means caring enough about someone to tell them the truth, even when it's uncomfortable. He get...

Motivation is a story you tell yourself 11.03.2026

> ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Book a meeting with Dan ******** What actually separates the sales reps who consistently win from the ones who show up fired up and fizzle out by end of day? The answer isn't more motivation. It's discipline. This episode is for individual contributors who are tired of relying on momentum that doesn't last. Dan lays out a concrete daily point system that turns vague intentions into measu...

The number that tells you if your sales team is broken 09.03.2026

> ⁠⁠⁠ Book a meeting with Dan The Sales and Marketing Magic Number tells you exactly how efficiently your business is converting revenue investment into growth, and most companies either don't know it or are misreading what it's telling them. This episode is for CEOs, founders, and heads of sales who want a clear, defensible answer to the question every investor will eventually ask: is your go-...

What Actually Matters | For your life 06.03.2026

> ⁠⁠ Book a meeting with Dan ⁠⁠ Dan's recording this one from Amsterdam, where he's landed for eight days with a client and his oldest daughter in tow. Walking through the city, he gets into something more personal than pipeline and hiring: the practice of defining what actually matters to you before life makes that decision for you. This episode kicks off a series within the show where...

No one's coming to save your quarter 04.03.2026

> ⁠ Book a meeting with Dan ⁠ Dan's walking through the streets of downtown Cartagena for this one, and the energy of the city center matches the urgency of the message. This episode is a direct call-out to every sales rep and leader who's waiting on marketing, partners, or management to save their quarter. Dan's message is simple and unambiguous: no one's coming. The reps who win are the ones...

Your revenue has a problem you haven't named yet 02.03.2026

> Book a meeting with Dan > Here is a ⁠ link to the framework⁠ Dan talks about. Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode -- In this episode Dan walks you through the exact framework he uses with Series B and above companies to diagnose the true health of their revenue organization. He calls it the "State of the Revenue," and it's the clearest, most actionable way to know what y...

Meet Dan Watkins 27.02.2026

Before the episodes, before the frameworks, before the walks through Cartagena and Amsterdam and Chiang Mai, there's this: Dan Watkins introducing himself, the podcast, and exactly what you can expect if you decide to stick around. Dan started his career at an outsourced call center in his teens, became employee number 15 at Qualtrics, and helped lead that sales organization through an $8 bill...

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