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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

SaaStr

What makes this growth story particularly fascinating is how quickly their go-to-market (GTM) organization scaled from just 3 people to 75 in less than a year. The 5 Key Elements of Codeium’s GTM Scaling Playbook 1. The first GTM hires are your most important Your initial sales team sets the culture and performance bar.

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Are We Losing The Customer In Our GTM Strategies?

Partners in Excellence

There are never ending, and important discussions, about our Go To Market (GTM) strategies. We talk about organizational structures and functions involved in our GTM implementation. The discussions about our GTM strategies are endless. We need to move beyond GTM to look at our Go To Customer (GTC) strategies.

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GTMfund’s 3 Areas of Focus for Investing

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. That’s why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report — to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. Read the free and ungated report.

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4 Unexpected Learnings from Databricks’ Sales Growth Machine From Its VP of Sales

SaaStr

A little ways back Databricks VP of Sales Heather Akuiyibo joined SaaStr to share unexpected things that work well at Databricks GTM organization as well as some things that havent worked as well. Territory Transitions – The hypergrowth required constant territory realignments, which created friction with both customers and AEs.

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The State of GTM Jobs: Sales

Sales Hacker

This is a special edition of The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date on go-to-market and scale their companies and careers. Feedback from GTM leaders echoes this notion. The post The State of GTM Jobs: Sales appeared first on GTMnow.

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Why You Should Switch to Continuous GTM Planning

Sales Hacker

You name it, the GTM plan is continuously disrupted by it — Sales turnover Layoffs Hiring Promotions Mergers Acquisitions Reorganizations Strategic shifts Funding rounds Recessions Global pandemics Regulatory changes ….and In truth, in the face of these potent forces, the static GTM plan never really stood a chance.

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How to navigate the shift from Product-Led Growth to Enterprise

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies. See more top GTM jobs on the GTMfund Job Board.

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