I grew up in Sweden, then spent a decade of my working life on the road - the United States, Latin America, multiple European markets - building revenue functions for B2B companies that had outgrown their original way of selling. Different industries, same pattern underneath.
Over those years I worked with around two thousand companies in some capacity and quietly influenced more than six million in revenue across the engagements I led. I'm noting these numbers in one place once. They're not the point. The point is what showed up consistently across all of them.
The same architectural problems, dressed in different industries.Pipelines that didn't tell the truth. Forecasts that lived on a different planet from the bank account. Teams that worked harder every quarter and got smaller results. The good people inside the system were not the problem. The system was the problem.
I built, I broke, I rebuilt - my own work and the work of the companies I served. That part of the path is real, but it isn't the story I'm here to tell. The story is the work. After twelve years I came home to Sweden to do the same work from a quieter place, with a smaller calendar and tighter focus on companies and founders I actually want to spend the time with.
Revenue is a systems problem, not a people problem. The route exists. Build it.