The GTM Podcast interviews well-known tech executive, VC, and founders - the expert operators in the trenches who have ‘been there, done that’ to build some of the fastest-growing software companies. Every week, a guest joins Scott Barker to dissect their stories, revealing expert insights around what worked, what didn’t, and how things actually went down. This podcast is produced by GTMnow, the media brand of GTMfund - sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio ...
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With more than 1,100 episodes and millions of downloads, Sales Strategy and Enablement with Revenue.io is the world’s most-trusted sales podcast. Each week, host Howard Brown delivers inspiring conversations with the world’s greatest sales leaders about sales engagement strategies and tactics, sales enablement, artificial intelligence, revenue intelligence, tech maturity, sales psychology and more. Through discussions with the world’s top CROs, CSOs, CEOs, researchers, authors and technologi ...
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GTM 122: The 4 Ps of Sales Success: People, Process, Platforms, Performance with Phil Hernandez
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Phil Hernandez is the VP of Sales Services at TaskUs. He has spent the past 20 years skillfully building and transforming numerous Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. He possesses an unwavering commitment to mastering sales systems and demonstrates expertise in orchestrating organizational change aimed at cultivating high-performance revenue teams. His diver…
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GTM 121: Listening to Your Customers Without Obeying with Crunchbase's CRO Neal Patel
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Nealesh Patel is the Chief Revenue Officer at Crunchbase, an AI-powered platform that helps over 80 million dealmakers discover and prioritize the right opportunities using best-in-class company data. With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry, Neal has a proven track record of executing progressive growth strategies, landing innovative …
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GTM 120: Avoid the AI Sales Skills Atrophy Trap with Peter Kazanjy
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Pete Kazanjy is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor. He currently leads Atrium, makers of sales performance management software to help organizations measure and improve sales performance. Previously, he founded TalentBin, a talent search engine and recruiting CRM that was acquired by Monster Worldwide i…
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GTM 119: Design Products Backwards From GTM: Lessons from Scaling to $1B+ with David Knight
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David Knight is the Co-founder and CEO of Avarra, an AI-powered platform that simulates human-to-human interactions to accelerate sales onboarding and training. With over 30 years of experience scaling companies from tens of millions to billions in revenue, including WebEx and Proofpoint, David brings a unique perspective on the intertwined nature …
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GTM 118: 5 Must-Try PLG Tactics to Accelerate Growth with Kyle Poyar
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Kyle Poyar is the Co-Founder and Operating Partner at Tremont, with over 8 years of experience at OpenView where he became a leading voice in the product-led growth (PLG) movement. Kyle shares his insights on the inevitability of PLG in an AI-driven future and reveals must-try tactics to accelerate growth using a PLG approach. Discussed in this Epi…
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GTM 117: From 0 to Acquisition in 3.5 Years Through Community-Led Growth with Cliff Simon
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Cliff Simon is the CRO of Carabiner Group, a part of SBI Growth, an advisor, and fractional executive for several high-growth start-ups, where he utilizes his expertise in all things GTM and RevOps. He is an active leader in multiple GTM communities. With almost two decades of broad technology experience, he has anchored GTM teams in SaaS & Service…
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GTM 116: The Future of SEO and AI's Impact, with a $100M+ Product-Led SEO Framework with Eli Schwartz
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Eli Schwartz is an SEO expert and consultant with over a decade of experience driving successful SEO and growth programs for both B2B and B2C companies. He has worked with major brands like Shutterstock, Gusto, WordPress, Quora, Mixpanel, and Zendesk to build and execute global SEO strategies that dramatically increase their visibility at scale. Pr…
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1172: Combining Human Intuition and AI for Sales Success [Special RevOps Podcast Episode]
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Combining AI systems with human intuition can give your team a competitive advantage. This week, we're back with Tim Hudson, the new Chief Commercial Officer from TE Connectivity and former Global Vice President, Commercial Excellence at Honeywell. We dive into the fascinating world of conversational intelligence and AI, discussing how these techno…
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GTM 115: Lessons from CS to CRO and How Customer Stories are Your Most Powerful Growth Lever with Allison Metcalfe
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A transformational leader who specializes in data driven GTM, Allison Metcalfe has had a non-traditional path to the C Suite - starting in Account Management, and being a leader in the evolution of Customer Success, Allison has held a variety of leadership roles across sales and operations in some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies inclu…
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1171: Running with the Data [Special RevOps Podcast Episode]
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Data is great, but understanding how to use the data is even more important. Dana Therrien, Vice President & CRO Practice at Anaplan, joins Alastair and Howard this week to talk about how actioning your data can make you a better runner as well as a better sales professional. Follow the Host on LinkedIn: Howard Brown (CEO, Revenue.io) And our Speci…
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GTM 114: Audience-First GTM, Fueling Startup Growth via LinkedIn with Adam Robinson
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Adam Robinson is the Founder/CEO of Retention.com and RB2B. Adam bootstrapped Retention.com to $22m ARR in 4 years by helping ecommerce stores identify their anonymous website visitors and send them triggered emails. He launched RB2B in March of 2024 to help SaaS companies identify anonymous website visitors and see their LinkedIn profiles in Slack…
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1170: Metrics Every Revenue Leader has to Focus on Right Now with Ray Rike (Part 2) [Special RevOps Podcast Episode]
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An average company uses between 12-35 metrics and dozens of KPIs. But do they all work? In the second of a two-part series, Ray Rike, Founder and CEO of RevOps Squared, along with Howard and Alastair, lean into the modern metrics and KPIs that matter most in times of economic stress. We'll address vanity metrics vs. items that actually help us unde…
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GTM 113: Operator.ai, Solving the Great Ignore and GTMfund Incubating a Company with Mark Kosoglow and Max Altschuler
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Mark Kosoglow is the Co-Founder and CEO of Operator.ai, a company incubated by GTMfund. Mark was employee #1 at Outreach and former SVP of Global Sales, where he helped grow the company from zero to over $200 million in revenue. He is joined in this special edition podcast episode by Max Altschuler, Founder and General Partner of GTMfund. Discussed…
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GTM 112: The Ultimate MarTech Guide and the Great Contraction with Austin Hay
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Austin Hay is the Co-Founder of Clarify, a new intelligent CRM built as a platform that developers love. He is also a Partner and MarTech Teacher at Reforge, as well as a MarTech Advisor and GTM Investor at HBE Ventures. With a background leading marketing technology teams at high-growth startups like Ramp, Branch, and mParticle, Austin brings a we…
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1169: Metrics Every Revenue Leader has to Focus on Right Now with Ray Rike (Part 1) [Special RevOps Podcast Episode]
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An average company uses between 12-35 metrics and dozens of KPIs. But do they all work? In this two-part series, Ray Rike, Founder and CEO of RevOps Squared, along with Howard and Alastair, lean into the modern metrics and KPIs that matter most in times of economic stress. We'll address vanity metrics vs. items that actually help us understand the …
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GTM 111: Behind the Scenes on Apollo.io's PLG Funnel, Leveraging AI, and Redefining Sales Success with Leandra Fishman
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Leandra Fishman is the Chief Revenue Officer at Apollo.io, a leading go-to-market solution for sales and marketing teams. Apollo.io is one of the fastest-growing companies in SaaS, with 9x ARR growth since 2021 and currently valued at $1.6 billion. Leandra brings over 30 years of experience to Apollo.io. Most recently, Fishman was the CRO at Interc…
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1168: FOMO is Dead. What Now?? (Part 2) [Special RevOps Podcast Episode]
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Join us for the second of a two-part conversation with world-renowned sales expert Brent Adamson, the co-author of The Challenger Sale and a Gartner alum, as we discuss what it means to sell on Customer Value Creation and how to win over "rational buyers". Follow the Host on LinkedIn: Howard Brown (CEO, Revenue.io) And our Special Guest: Brent Adam…
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GTM 110: Vertical SaaS Secrets and Unlocking Growth with Price's Law with Dennis Lyandres
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Dennis Lyandres is currently an Advisor at Iconiq Growth. Before that, Dennis spent 8.5 years with Procore during which time Procore grew from $10m to over $900m+ in revenue and went public on the NYSE. Dennis started at Procore as EVP of Sales in 2014, before moving to the CRO role in 2018 where he was responsible for driving revenue across all cu…
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1167: FOMO is Dead. What Now?? (Part 1) [Special RevOps Podcast Episode]
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Join us for the first of a two-part conversation with world-renowned sales expert Brent Adamson, the co-author of The Challenger Sale and a Gartner alum, as we discuss what it means to sell on Customer Value Creation and how to win over "rational buyers". Follow the Host on LinkedIn: Howard Brown (CEO, Revenue.io) And our Special Guest: Brent Adams…
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GTM 109: Behind the Scenes on Building Braze and Incubating 2 Companies with Mark Ghermezian
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Mark Ghermezian co-founded Braze (BRZE) and led the company as it’s founding CEO, pioneering a new category. He is also the Founder and General Partner at m]x[v Capital, and Co-Founder and CEO of Gynger and Tildei, two companies that he incubated through the venture firm. He is a serial entrepreneur and successful investor with 20+ years of experie…
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GTM 108: From CPA to CRO - Lessons from a 25-Year Software Sales Career with Matt Breslin
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As Upland's Chief Revenue Officer, Matt Breslin oversees customer success, demand generation and communications, sales, revenue enablement, and revenue analysis, supporting our Shared Services Organization. Matt has 25 years of experience in the software industry, most recently leading a $700 million business at Infor. Prior to that, he held senior…
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GTM 107: Fueling Growth with AI-Powered Marketing Experiments | Adriana Gil Miner
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Adriana Gil Miner is CMO at Iterable, the AI-powered customer communication platform. Passionate about customer engagement, her leadership has contributed to Iterable's success in helping brands like Redfin, Priceline, and Volvo deliver individualized, harmonized and dynamic communications at scale. Prior to her role at Iterable, Adriana held influ…
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GTM 106: Mastering the Transition from PLG to PLS with Andrew Johnston
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Andrew Johnston is currently the Head of Sales at Superhuman, where he leads the go-to-market strategy as part of the executive team. Previously, he built the Mid-Market and PLS motion at Scale AI and led the global sales team at SendGrid following its acquisition by Twilio and its IPO. Discussed in this Episode: The key differences between product…
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GTM 105: Scaling to $100M ARR with Creative Demand Gen and Hiring Discipline with Sam Blond
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Sam Blond is the former Chief Revenue Officer at Brex, where he scaled revenue from $1M to hundreds of millions in ARR. Prior to Brex, Sam served as VP of Sales at Zenefits, growing revenue from $1M to $70M in just two years. After his operating roles, Sam joined Founders Fund as an investing partner before leaving to co-found a new startup. Discus…
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GTM 104: Winning with Systems and Relationships in Sales Leadership with Ralph Barsi
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Ralph Barsi is the VP of Sales at Kahua, a leading construction management platform. Prior to Kahua, Ralph held executive roles at Tray.io and ServiceNow. While at ServiceNow, he built and led a team of 230 people across the globe, during thecompany’s growth from from $1 billion to over $4 billion in revenue. Prior to ServiceNow, Ralph was the VP o…
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