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The definitive GTM knowledge base for Series A to pre-IPO.

Four kinds of evidence about going to market, in one place and clearly labelled: what we measured, what we prescribe, what it produced, and what operators argue — all wired into a single knowledge graph.

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Four kinds of evidence

These are not interchangeable. A measurement with a stated sample is a stronger citation than a strong opinion, and this site says which is which.

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Knowledge topics

Each topic page puts the measurement, the method, the proof and the opinion side by side — the pages LLMs and Google cite.

Revenue Operations

Revenue Operations is the function that aligns the systems, process, data, and cadence behind sales, marketing, and cust…

87 episodes · 161 more

Sales Enablement

Sales enablement is the function that makes sellers more effective — positioning, product knowledge, onboarding, and con…

19 episodes · 1 more

Consumption Revenue

Consumption (usage-based) revenue recognizes when customers actually use a product, not when they sign. It reshapes ever…

9 episodes

Forecasting

Forecasting predicts future revenue. In a consumption world it belongs to a centralized data-science function owned by f…

28 episodes · 28 more

AI in GTM

AI in go-to-market is best understood as a productivity multiplier for the humans who harness it, not a replacement for …

83 episodes · 24 more

Sales Compensation

Sales compensation in a consumption world has no silver bullet. Acquisition and install reps carry different numbers, ac…

12 episodes · 8 more

Sales Leadership

Sales leadership is the craft of building, coaching, and scaling revenue teams. A recurring theme across the podcast: th…

64 episodes · 5 more

GTM Strategy

Go-to-market strategy is how a company reaches, wins, and expands customers — the ICP, segments, motions, pricing, and p…

107 episodes · 49 more

Pricing & Packaging

Pricing and packaging is how a company captures value — the model (seat, usage, or outcome-based), the tiers, and the me…

18 episodes · 16 more

Brand & Positioning

Brand and positioning decide whether a company owns a clear category in the buyer's mind. The most common failure is a n…

26 episodes · 1 more

Demand Generation

Demand generation creates and captures buyer interest through content, campaigns, media, and programs that compound over…

41 episodes · 43 more

Outbound & Sales Development

Outbound sales — prospecting, sequencing, and booking meetings — is being reshaped by AI agents that research accounts, …

22 episodes · 8 more

Mergers & Acquisitions

M&A success is decided by integration, not the deal thesis. Value leaks through culture clashes, unclear ownership, botc…

7 episodes · 1 more

Enterprise & Public-Sector Sales

Enterprise selling means long, multi-stakeholder cycles, heavy proof and security requirements, and complex procurement.…

22 episodes
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Ep. 121

The Demand Engine Never Existed

Jason Tatum on inheriting a 12-year-old product with real product-market fit and no acquisition motion underneath it, the empty-calendar test, describing yourself in your customers' language, and getting an impossible list done bird by bird

September 18, 2026 · 00:49:27 · 37 min read
Ep. 120

AI Made Outreach Worthless. Events Are What's Left

Alex Reynolds on the $10 million booth with thirty reps on their phones, why 3x event ROI is a terrible bar, badge scans as a vanity metric, half of all tickets selling in the last two weeks, and proof of humanity in the age of AI avatars

September 17, 2026 · 00:49:59 · 43 min read
Ep. 119

The Agent Was Never the Hard Part

Kushal Sharma on the data layer underneath AI — what a semantic layer actually is, what a context graph actually does, when a vector database is worth buying, and why almost none of it is an LLM

September 16, 2026 · 01:07:31 · 62 min read
Ep. 118

Convert Your Entire CRM to Apex

Steve Dinner on why the two-week sprint is finished, the three tracks and two gates replacing it, the 29:1 RevOps ratio he had to right-size, and why an LLM should manage your CRM like a code base

September 15, 2026 · 00:53:13 · 41 min read
Ep. 117

You Can't Get Promoted Until You Replace Yourself

Cole Gillespie on writing the recipe for a sales rep, turning "responsive" into a three-hour SLA, the four things every person should expect off the elevator, and why the leader who has to be asked for the raise already lost

September 14, 2026 · 01:13:28 · 64 min read
Ep. 116

Balance Is the Wrong Goal: Fixing Burnout in RevOps

Joe Mosely on the day the grind broke, the three tactics that stuck, why RevOps people fail by over-indexing on the wrong things, and running ad hoc and roadmap work as two streams

September 11, 2026 · 00:34:55 · 26 min read
Ep. 115

What RevOps Should Look Like at Every Stage

Hassan Irshad on the RevOps build order from Series A to post-IPO, compensation without contracts, and why AI makes the context layer RevOps owns more valuable than ever

September 10, 2026 · 01:10:23 · 54 min read
Ep. 114

Outbound Isn't Dying. Yours Is.

Joey Gilkey on the reach rate almost nobody measures, the four pillars of outbound, an SDR who isn't allowed to book meetings, and why AI belongs in the back of the house

September 9, 2026 · 01:07:29 · 68 min read
Ep. 113

Forward Deployed Engineers Are Just Professional Services

Aimee Menne on the two-question FDE test, knowing when customers are pulling you into services, the maturity curve from first hire to P&L, and how Sourcegraph packages implementation, hours and outcomes

September 8, 2026 · 00:50:51 · 41 min read
Ep. 112

Why Enablement Fails Before It Starts

Cheyenne Griffith on the three conditions a company has to meet before enablement can work, why the SKO launch is the smallest part of the job, and why maintenance is the AI problem that keeps her up at night

September 7, 2026 · 00:50:54 · 42 min read
Ep. 111

Your AI Agents Have God Mode (And Nobody Vetted Them)

SecureAuth CRO Mark van Oppen on the three ways agents cause incidents, continuous authority, turning the CISO into the department of yes, the spam cannon on every desk, and building pipeline on trust

September 4, 2026 · 00:49:59 · 38 min read
Ep. 110

Why You Can't Automate Reddit

Clearbox co-founders Shawn Tenam and Lila Rest on why Reddit rewards the human effort automation can't fake, how to earn your way past the karma gate, and the cost engineering behind a $75-a-month product

September 3, 2026 · 01:03:44 · 57 min read