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Ryan Gross

Ryan Gross

GTM & sales leader for AI video and early-stage SaaS startups

San Francisco, California
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Joined October 2025
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Summary

GTM and sales leader for early-stage AI/SaaS products: Ryan has led go-to-market and sales motions at AI/video startup HeyGen (hosting product demos and authoring user guides) and earlier ran multiple sales and customer-success roles at Inscribe. His public HeyGen webinars and guides show hands-on experience translating product capabilities into customer conversations and documented enablement content. heygen+3
Early-stage startup operator with cross-functional GTM experience: Across Inscribe (sales, customer success, growth) and Optimizely (SDR), Ryan developed a broad GTM skill set — from inbound/outbound prospecting to enterprise AE work and customer success — useful for founding teams building repeatable revenue operations. linkedin
Formal entrepreneurship training and startup-facing writing: He completed Notre Dame's ESTEEM master's program (2017-2018) and authored program blog posts about cohort experiences and the Silicon Valley trip, reflecting sustained interest in startup building and product-market discovery. nd+1
Collegiate athlete and student-leader: At Wabash College he was on the men's basketball roster and active in campus fraternity leadership (Beta Theta Pi), indicating teamwork, leadership, and extracurricular engagement during his undergraduate years. wabash+1

Work

Education

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Writing

How to get started with HeyGen: from account setup to video creation

May 1, 2025

A step-by-step guide for new HeyGen users covering account creation, templates, avatars, editing, and translating videos — authored for HeyGen's community hub.

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Spring Break Trip to Silicon Valley: Day Three, or Proof that Silicon Valley is not Dead

March 1, 2018

A blog post written while in the Notre Dame ESTEEM program describing the cohort's experiences on a Silicon Valley trip (reflects interest in startups and entrepreneurship).

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My Week in ESTEEM (blog post)

September 1, 2017

Short-form reflections about the ESTEEM semester experience and activities while in Notre Dame's entrepreneurship master's program.

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Hobbies

College basketball (played on Wabash College varsity roster) wabash

Fraternity / campus leadership (Beta Theta Pi, served in chapter leadership as an undergraduate) wabash+1