Modine Shares Jump Over 20% After $4 B Data Center Cooling Deal with Hyperscaler
Modine Manufacturing Company’s shares surged 24% to $323 after the firm announced a multi‑year capacity agreement worth up to $4 billion with a leading hyperscaler for its Airedale cooling solutions. The deal, covering 2027‑2029, gives the company long‑term revenue visibility and underscores the strategic shift toward AI‑driven data‑center markets.
IREN Ltd. Buys Dell’s Blackwell Systems for $1.6B, Aims to Lift ARR to $4.4B
Australian data‑center operator IREN Ltd. signed a $1.6 billion agreement with Dell Technologies to acquire Nvidia‑based Blackwell systems. The hardware will support IREN’s five‑year, $3.4 billion AI cloud contract and is expected to boost its ARR from $3.7 billion to $4.4 billion.
Ep46 Two AI Extinction Moments Coming for Enterprise Sales | EQ You × AI
The episode warns of two looming extinction events in enterprise sales: revenue leaders (CROs) who roll out AI tools without embedding them into daily workflows, and frontline sellers who refuse to use those tools to create customer value. The host uses...
Vicki MacDonald Named Head of Illy Canada
Vicki MacDonald has been appointed head of Illy’s Canadian operations, taking full responsibility for the market. She joined Illy in 2019 as Canadian division manager and most recently served as director of sales and marketing. In her new role, MacDonald...
Mappedin Appoints Aaron Fullen as Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Growth of Indoor Intelligence Platform
Mappedin, the indoor‑mapping platform, appointed Aaron Fullen as chief revenue officer shortly after closing a $24.5 million Series B round. The funding will support its push from building‑level wayfinding to city‑wide indoor intelligence. Fullen brings two decades of go‑to‑market leadership, most recently...
Rhenus Group Expand Asia Pacific Freight Capabilities
Rhenus Group announced a 2025 expansion of its road‑freight network across the Asia Pacific, targeting stronger cross‑border trucking between Greater China and Southeast Asia. The plan integrates road services with air and ocean freight while scaling local distribution and leveraging...
Lovable Hires CRO Ryan Meadows to Accelerate Global Expansion, Eyes $400M ARR Growth
Lovable, the Swedish AI coding platform, appointed Ryan Meadows as chief revenue officer to spearhead rapid international expansion. Meadows will lead a 35‑person go‑to‑market team that has driven annual recurring revenue to $400 million, a 30 percent month‑over‑month jump, while the company...
GrowGeneration Shuts 12 Stores as Cannabis Supply Chain Faces Oversupply
GrowGeneration, one of the nation’s largest hydroponics and cannabis‑cultivation suppliers, announced the closure of 12 stores over the past year, including four in Q1 2026. The move is framed as a response to persistent oversupply and a need for a more...
Nvidia Flags Taiwan Supply‑Chain Bottlenecks as Vera Rubin Ramp Stresses TSMC CoWoS Capacity
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang landed in Taiwan on May 23 to meet TSMC’s chairman and lock in production for the six‑chip Vera Rubin AI platform, warning that the ramp will overload the island’s advanced‑packaging capacity. The trip follows Nvidia’s record Q1...
Phillips Connect Names Mark Wallin President to Accelerate Smart Trailer Sales
Phillips Connect announced Thursday that Mark Wallin has been promoted to President and General Manager. The move is aimed at scaling sales and operational processes for the company's smart trailer technology, which now serves multiple top‑10 North American trucking firms....
HDI Global Appoints Thomas Kropp as COO/CIO, Replacing Dr. Thomas Kuhnt
HDI Global, the corporate and specialty insurer of Germany's Talanx Group, announced Thomas Kropp will assume the dual role of COO and CIO on July 1, 2026, succeeding Dr. Thomas Kuhnt. The move aligns with the Xcelerate29 strategy and underscores...
Tower Elevates Michael Skeens to COO to Accelerate Scaling Strategy
Tower announced the appointment of Michael Skeens as its new chief operations officer, tasking him with scaling the insurer’s operational hubs, AI‑enabled contact centre and service expansion. The move underscores Tower’s focus on talent development and execution excellence as it...
Ex‑Snowflake CRO Warns $1.2M AI Sales Packages Are Spawning a “Seat‑warming” Talent Bubble
Former Snowflake CRO Chris Degnan cautioned that Anthropic’s $1.2 million sales‑person compensation packages – and $100 million CRO deals – are creating a generation of “seat‑warming” talent lacking real selling skills. He argues the AI‑industry pay surge threatens long‑term sales effectiveness.
How the Best Sellers Think Differently with Sahir Azam
The Revenue Builders podcast features Sahir Azam, former CPO of MongoDB, discussing what separates elite enterprise sellers from the rest. He argues that intellectual curiosity—understanding both business problems and underlying technology—is now a non‑negotiable credential for credibility with increasingly technical...
Atlassian CRO Sells $174K of Stock Amid Revenue Beat, Sparking Investor Scrutiny
Atlassian's chief revenue officer disposed of $174,271.50 worth of company stock on May 23, 2026, shortly after the software firm posted a quarterly earnings beat. The sale, made at $85.42 per share, has prompted analysts and investors to question the...
Laminar Names Sanjay Rajan CRO as It Tightens Industrial AI Strategy
Laminar, the industrial AI startup formerly known as H2Ok Innovations, announced Sanjay Rajan as its new chief revenue officer. The appointment is part of a broader effort to scale its Chemical-Process AI platform for cleaning‑in‑place (CIP) operations across food, beverage,...
Jon McNeill’s Five‑Step Playbook for Building World‑Class Revenue Teams
Jon McNeill, Tesla’s former president, revealed the five‑step ‘Algorithm’ that helped the automaker grow revenue from $2 billion to $20 billion. His framework—question, delete, simplify, accelerate, automate—offers CROs a concrete method for building world‑class sales and revenue organizations.