Mike Adams is a serial founder and product leader with 11 years building education and conversation intelligence software, currently serving as Founder Chairman of Grain, which analyzes millions of customer meetings to coach sales and inform product. He previously co-founded MissionU (acquired by WeWork) and Degreed, and has a track record of turning classroom and alumni insights into scalable SaaS businesses and go-to-market playbooks. Mike blends hands-on product and engineering experience—from shipping OpenTable’s cloud web app to leading early-stage platform design—with operator-scale strategy in sales, marketing, and generative AI. He regularly teaches his MissionU build story at Stanford GSB and writes about startups, GTM, and AI, signaling a rare mix of practitioner pedagogy and startup execution.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Economics, B.S. Economics at Brigham Young University
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