
Sean Black
Founder & CEO
Sean founded SalesCrunch in April 2010 on a mission to take sales from fuzzy art to repeatable process and to give organizations transparency into what’s going on with customers on the front lines.
Sean is also the author of upcoming book “Dirty Sexy Money: How to Build Sales at a Startup” which details how high-growth startups LinkedIn, Yelp, Hubspot and Trulia have socialized sales throughout their entire organization.
From 2005 to 2010, Sean was founding VP, Sales at Trulia.com, where he was part of the core management team that helped build Trulia from the ground up. Some Trulia accomplishments during those first five years include:
- Built the team from 5 to 170 people, 70 in sales.
- Closed hundreds of large clients like Bank of America, Home Depot, State Farm and Century 21 as well as tens of thousands of individual real estate agents.
- Announced profitability despite the worst real estate market and recession in 20 years
- Grew unique monthly users from 0 to 7 Million.
- Raised over $33M from prominent investors including Ron Conway, Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, investors in Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Facebook & Apple.
Before Trulia, Sean was Vice President, Sales at The Corcoran Group, the large real estate firm in New York. Sean’s started online auto insurance portal Everymile.com while in business school in 2000. Sean sold his first business Europro, a $3.5M nutrition supplement company in Europe, in 1999. Between 1997 and 1999, Sean developed new business & investment opportunities for the Franciscans at the Vatican in Rome.
Sean received his MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from Babson College. Sean’s business plan for Everymile was one of five out of 20 to be awarded office space in the Babson business hatchery. Sean received his Bachelors in Business from The Pennsylvania State University.
Personal:
When not working hard, Sean loves spending time with his family and friends, watching foreign films, snowboarding, cycling (Cannondale CAAD 9), swimming, working out, eating (now you know why all the exercise) and traveling the globe.











