Selling at Startups vs Large Teams at Big Companies

​San Diego Sales Meetup! 🤩

​​​​​​📍 Location: 350 10th Ave, San Diego, CA
📆 Date: Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
🕔 Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

​Panel discussion diving into the stories of salespeople from scrappy early stage startups and large revenue teams at big established companies.

​Event Agenda:

​​​​​6:00 PM: Doors Open, Check-in, Drinks & Snacks

​​​​​6:30 - 7:30 PM: B2B Sales Workshop + Q&A

​​​​7:30 - 8 PM: Quick Group Photo, Open Networking

​​​​​8:00 PM: Event Closeout

​​About #SalesFriends:

​​​​​San Diego sales community. Giving customer facing roles a shared space to meet in person and grow together. Most of us work in tech but we welcome other industries as well.

​​​​​VPs of Sales, AEs, SDRs, CSMs, SEs and any other client facing acronym. An opportunity to share best practices and help each other get ahead in our careers.

​We don't like to exclude anyone... but no real estate agents allowed! We're here to learn and to network, not get pitched to buy a house.

​Featured Speakers:

​Ricky Houck, Founder & Community Organizer @ #SalesFriends


​​​Ricky has 10 years of B2B sales experience. He's been an early sales hire for two startups that were later acquired, founded a SaaS company in the sales enablement space, advises early stage startups on their GTM strategy, and currently leads enterprise sales for Arthur, an AI startup.

​Alphonse Hovsepian, Account Executive @ Salesforce


​A product specialist and Lead Mid Market Account Executive at Salesforce with over 14 years of Sales experience. He has previously worked at Oracle and Robert Half International and specializes in IaaS, PaaS, and Database sales.

​Stephanie Moncayo, Account Executive @ ClickUp

​Trilingual, with proven experience in sales, marketing and channel management for the SaaS B2B space. Leading with innovative and ambitious strategies that support growth, alignment, and revenue.

​Paty Araiza, Founder @ Sales Career Lab

​Built sales teams from the ground up inside early-stage startups. Today, she helps founders create scalable sales systems and coaches sales professionals navigating high-growth environments.

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