Gravity

Wanted to test whether this profile change would trigger our own tech….

It did.

Chief Executive Officer

“More than 75% of venture capital and early-stage investment decisions will be driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics by 2025” - Gartner

We start today by helping early-stage investors and innovators identify opportunities before they are known to the world.

Founder

Rocket Signals

Rocket Signals is now Gravity. 

We offer a fleet of tech enabled audience monitoring solutions that allows companies to track buying intent signals like fundraising status, job changes, new hires, technology changes, and various other real time data points. Our team has helped sales teams at well-known startups like Sendoso on their path toward $100M+ valuations.

Through education, community, and content, we also are passionate about developing and training the future of tech and B2B sales on the effectiveness of using sales signals to smash sales quotas and fuel gravity defying growth.

Co-Founder

SupportWichita.com & SuppotLocalDallas.com

Built two web-based mobile apps aimed at connecting consumers with local restaurants and small businesses during the shelter-in-place order caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Executed a hyper local launch strategy that grew the user base to over 50,000 in Dallas and Wichita.

Raised money for local charitable organizations and initiatives that aligned with the brand to support service workers during these trying times.

Translation: I hacked together an app powered by thousands of rows of data using no code tools in my parent’s basement. It went viral.

From that point forward, I was addicted to the game.

Deloitte

Played with data for 80-100 hours a week in a cubicle.

Senior Data Modeling Consultant

Data Modeling Consultant

Maize South High School

Turned a bunch of Kansas farm boys into some dawgs. 

Woulda won state if I didn’t have to start my real job at Deloitte.

Varsity Wide Receivers Coach 

Pasadera Capital

Financial Analyst

I'm Drake, the CEO of Gravity. Over 4 years ago we built a platform where 5,000 investors, sales professionals, and founders are using our data insights to gain a competitive advantage.

Gravity is a highly targeted and curated source for new founders and recently funded companies, as well as, founders you need to know! We monitor billions of datapoints on startups, founders, and key talent so you can be the first to discover opportunities before anyone else.

Unlike other data providers, we illuminate key insights around the founders of these companies in a easy-to-use dashboard that helps you uncover their FounderDNA™.

FounderDNA™ helps you answer questions like:

Which founders have had a prior exit?

Who just left a prominent role at a key industry player?

Which founders domain expertise align to what they just launched?

Can gender, age, or geographical location help me identify underrepresented founders who may not be in my network?

And much more!

I talk about data, startups, venture, and early stage investing. Feel free to connect so we can join the journey together on here! 

Drake Dukes

SHI International Corp.

Cisco Infrastructure Solutions Executive

LIBRA Experience, Inc.

Interim COO

Cisco

• FY21 Quota Attainment: 141% Product, 204% Services, 123% Recurring Software
• FY21: Grew territory 55% YOY

• Own and nurture Public Sector customer relationships through excellent customer service and aligning Cisco technologies to customers’ business objectives
• Create and execute strategic sales plan in order to achieve quota attainment and growth within 34 assigned customer accounts
• Deliver accurate revenue forecasting on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis
• Manage cross-functional relationships between Systems Engineers, Product Specialists, Customer Success, and Cisco resellers in order to sell across the entire Cisco portfolio as well as oversee successful implementation

Account Manager - Public Sector

• FY21Q1 SE of SLED West

• Pre-sales Systems Engineer supporting Public Sector customers
• Showcase Cisco product solutions, set up demonstrations and give presentations to explain features and benefits to customers, recommend and develop customer solution offerings to meet business outcomes, assist with the development of formal sales plans and proposals for assigned opportunities

Systems Engineer - Public Sector

• Specialization in Cisco's Enterprise Networking portfolio
• Provided pre-sales support to Cisco internal and partner account teams worldwide across all customer segments and geographies
• Pre-sales services include: finding and validating product information, assisting with competitive escalations, design assistance, creating bills of materials, and mapping specific solutions/products to customers' desired business outcomes
• Mentored Associate Systems Engineers in Cisco Sales Associate Program

Virtual Systems Engineer

• Graduated from an intensive year-long training program, known as Cisco Sales Associate Program (CSAP), dedicated to developing technical, business, and communication skills for a pre-sales systems engineering role
• Participated in 16-week boot camp on Cisco product/solution offerings, competitive knowledge, sales skills, programmability skills (Python), and technical exams
• Completed several customer meeting simulations/role-play assessments related to all Cisco solution architectures: LAN, WAN, Wireless, Collaboration, Data Center, and Security
• Shadowed field sales teams and delivered 50+ technical demonstrations to C-level executives as part of my on-the-job-experience rotation in Cisco's executive briefing center
• Achieved two industry-leading professional certifications -- CCNA and CCNP in Routing & Switching
• Mentored Field Sales & Business Development Interns

Cisco Sales Associate Program - Associate Systems Engineer

• Delivered market/competitive research and analysis in the form of weekly presentations to customer account teams in the Enterprise, Commercial, Public Sector, and Service Provider markets
• Aligned Cisco solutions and actionable insights to customers' business and technical goals, challenges, and initiatives
• Shadowed pre-sales Systems Engineers and received hands-on learning of customer-facing demonstrations and presentations
• Gained skills related to meeting strict deadlines, adapting to change, maximizing resources, team and situational leadership, listening and presentation skills, asking beneficial questions, receiving feedback, and developing a professional network

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