Company · Frontier AI

OpenAI

Frontier AI lab. Cited alongside Anthropic as experimenting with radically different, variable-pay-free seller compensation.

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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. 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
Ep. 99

Why Deflection Is the Wrong Way to Measure AI

Dvir Ginzburg of Encore AI on the metric that tanks revenue, why 'acts human' is the real moat, and the customer who lied to an AI agent

August 13, 2026 · 00:40:08 · 28 min read
Ep. 97

Stop Making Decisions, Start Making Bets

Yishi Zuo of Tavus on poker, expected value, and why the right go-to-market call can still lose

August 10, 2026 · 00:42:24 · 43 min read
Ep. 95

Why AI Means More RevOps Hires, Not Fewer

Jimmy O'Halloran on the operator's playbook for RevOps, sales enablement, and consumption revenue

July 20, 2026 · 01:03:47 · 51 min read
Ep. 92

Agents That Run Outbound While You Sleep

Mica, founder & CEO of Amplemarket, on agentic GTM — building outbound agents that research, personalize, and run while you sleep

July 13, 2026 · 00:51:33 · 49 min read
Ep. 91

Why Outcome-Based Pricing Is a Trap for Most AI Companies

Roee Hartuv on pricing & packaging, the jobs-to-be-done approach, and how AI broke SaaS unit economics

July 10, 2026 · 00:41:09 · 30 min read
Ep. 89

Why He Left the CEO Seat to Become a CRO

Alex Wakefield on scaling AcuityMD from $2M to $50M ARR, when to bring in RevOps, the overhiring trap, and breaking the 'AI-first' mental wall

July 6, 2026 · 00:53:52 · 48 min read
Ep. 86

Why the Best CROs Don't Come From Sales

Jerry Brooner on four exits, the secret pre-IPO roadshow, the truth about startup equity, and why every revenue leader should be building their own agents

June 8, 2026 · 00:57:40 · 53 min read
Ep. 75

How I Built an AI Agent Operating System in 90 Days

Yasin's build-along on the folder-and-file architecture behind LeanScale's agentic operating system

May 15, 2026 · 00:20:32 · 25 min read
Ep. 74

I Used AI Agents for Every Go-To-Market Role (Sales, Marketing, CS, RevOps)

A live build-along: AI agents for sales, sales management, marketing, customer success, and RevOps — plus the 2026 agent-platform landscape

May 15, 2026 · 00:48:03 · 61 min read
Ep. 73

He Left a $300M Company for a Startup… Here's Why

Oliver Manojlovic (CRO, Dash0) on pure pay-as-you-go GTM, ARR without contracts, consumption comp, hiring SEALs, and motivation vs. morale

May 15, 2026 · 00:53:28 · 47 min read
Ep. 68

Clarity Over Chaos: A CRO's Playbook for Category-Defining Companies

Josh Heller (Coactive AI) on market annealing, the CRO's real job, and why clarity beats doing more

May 15, 2026 · 00:54:15 · 55 min read
Ep. 56

Your Website Isn't Built for AI

Kevin White on AI bot traffic, AEO, and the future of digital marketing

November 3, 2025 · 00:34:26 · 31 min read
Ep. 41

Why Structure (Not Headcount) Builds Great RevOps

Steve Dinner on running a high-output RevOps team with zero in-house admins or devs — agile, structure, specialist contractors, and AI

October 29, 2025 · 00:48:32 · 40 min read
Ep. 38

Think Like a Doctor: Diagnosing Broken GTM Systems

Shaadik of LambdaTest on treating RevOps like a general physician — root causes, not symptoms

October 29, 2025 · 00:29:00 · 24 min read
Ep. 25

The End of Sales Guesswork

Christina Brady on how Luster diagnoses and predicts sales-team skill gaps before they erode revenue

October 27, 2025 · 00:38:50 · 40 min read