10x GTM Podcast

Mark Goldberger shares his framework for identifying top salespeople and what reps need to know to succeed.

Meka Asonye (First Round) is sharing his insights on what GTM teams should prioritize in 2025.

Amanda Kahlow shares her vision for transforming B2B sales with AI.

Kieran Flanagan breaks down how AI is transforming business operations and what you need to know to stay ahead of the curve.

Samantha McKenna shares her expert tips on social selling and building an authentic presence on LinkedIn.

Tessa Whittaker, VP of RevOps at ZoomInfo, dives into how teams should approach AI strategy, emphasizing the importance of starting with business problems and data foundations rather than shiny new tools.

Kyle Poyar, creator of the popular Growth Unhinged newsletter, explains why companies should move from traditional account-based marketing (ABM) to account-based everything (ABX), using all their data and teams together to reach the right people at the right companies.

Kevin Baldacci, Head of Solutions Product Marketing at Asana, shares what makes great product marketers tick and how the role has changed over time.

How do you scale GTM from 0 to 1 and beyond? Alex Kracov, CEO and Co-Founder of Dock, shares his proven playbook.

Saad Khan, Director of Sales and Business Development at Aligned, talks us through building signal powered outbound at-scale.

Angelica, Head of Demand Generation at Vercel, talks us through selling developer facing products, signal based selling, automated outbound and much more.

Lisa Schrumpf, SVP of Global Sales at Intercom, talks us through how she navigated the change from PLG to PLS.

Zack Turner, RVP of Enterprise Sales at Slack, shares stories about the early days of Product-Led Sales at Box and how things have changed in the last decade for sales at PLG companies.

When you have millions of users, turning that into revenue should be easy, right? Alexa sits down with Taylor Gibson, GTM lead at Writer, to talk about bridging the gap between PLG and enterprise sales.

Alexa sits down with Melissa Ross, GTM at Heygen, a cutting-edge AI-powered platform revolutionizing the world of video creation. Prior to joining Heygen, Melissa held several senior GTM roles at top PLG companies like Clockwise and Asana.

Simran Duggal, Enterprise Sales Leader at Webflow shares the value-selling framework that helps Webflow translate product usage into an enterprise ROI story. Simran and Alexa walk through how Webflow structures discovery conversations and why she thinks most reps could be doing more disco before demo.

Alexa sits down with Lilly Skolnik, North American Sales Leader at Ashby, to discuss the differences in selling horizontal vs. vertical PLG products, how to nail the "imaginative sale," and lessons on building the enterprise playbook at Slack and Loom.

When you're employee number 30 you just "figure it out." Hear all about Megan's journey from BizOps to leading CS at Ramp.

Learn how Tessa's scaled and strategic CS org creates delight for Loom customers.

Athletic nerds analyze and use product data to prioritize accounts and craft compelling narratives for decision-makers.

Alexa and Andrew Thompson, VP of Sales at Agora, talk through the foundational elements of any good sales playbook, how to build a feedback loop on playbooks, and how to iterate your playbooks.

Alexa and Kevin Young, VP of Sales at UserEvidence dive right into what Kevin calls his "anti-playbook playbook," why he feels strongly that repeatability is sometimes overrated, and how to build a sales team that thinks from first principles.

Alexa chats with Adam Carroll, Founder at Carroll Sales Consulting and former sales leader at FullStory, Recurly, and Outbrain. Adam shares his advice on segmenting your playbooks, moving upmarket, coaching your team on playbooks, and how he built a global expansion strategy.

Alexa chats with Kareem Agha, Head of Sales at Haus about the value of warm outbound, the dangers of ignoring cold outbound, and how to get the entire team excited about doing pipe gen.

Alexa and Devin Schiller, Enterprise Sales Leader at Sprout Social talk about the early days of PLS playbooks at Slack, the learnings he brought over to Sprout Social, and how the playbooks have changed.

Alexa interviews Riley Harbour, Head of Business Development at Grammarly about how Grammarly built a successful playbook for B2C user acquisition and how they're turning that success into a powerful enterprise motion.

Alexa sits down with Reed McBride, VP Business Development at Carta on Carta’s PLG playbook for their new product called "Launch."

Namrata Ram, Head of Revenue Strategy and Operations shares her insights for building and scaling a product-led RevOps organization.

Ben joined Paperspace to build a revenue engine on top of their already successful PLG motion. Within six months and after adopting Pocus, Ben created a customer-first program that grew top-line revenue by over 2.5x YoY.

Andrea Wang (Partner at General Catalyst, formerly Growth at Amplitude) on how to drive a product-led growth (PLG) motion from a product perspective, all while collaborating closely with sales, marketing, and the rest of the go-to-market function.

During his eight years at Superhuman, Gaurav Vohra has led everything from growth to product, marketing, and analytics — and made huge strides in every single role. Listen in for his take on: product-market fit, aha moments, onboarding, GTM alignment, and more!

David Barron, Global Head of Sales at HubSpot, shares advice on how to establish a smooth sales + product feedback loop, identifying product-qualified leads (PQLs), deciding the right mix of sales motions and channels to invest in, outbound that doesn’t feel spammy, tactics for boosting retention, velocity, and ACV, and more.

In this episode of Unlocking Revenue, Pocus Head of Marketing, Sandy Mangat, chats with Emily Kramer — she's built and scaled the GTMs of well-known PLG and PLS brands like Asana and Carta, and now helps marketers with her newsletter, advising, and angel investment. Listen in for advice on: The GTM spectrum (from pure PLG to fully sales-led), hiring and org design to complement your GTM motion, marketing strategy for each motion (top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid).

We partnered with Kyle and the folks at OpenView on our second annual Product-Led Sales Benchmarks survey. In this episode of Unlocking Revenue, Kyle and Alexa dissect the survey results. Kyle share his SaaS trend predictions for 2023. Listen in for insights on topics like: how customers are buying products, PQAs vs. PQLs, pros and cons of reverse trials, ICP definitions and lead scoring, PLS metrics you should be tracking, and more!

Tune in to discover how ClickUp transitioned from sales-led to product-led, what it took to get PLG buy-in, the process behind defining and operationalizing PQLs at ClickUp, balancing automation and customization when it comes to sales outreach, and the details of ClickUp’s self-serve and land-and-expand motions.

In this episode of Unlocking Revenue, Clearbit’s Julie Beynon and Colin White talk about how Clearbit's lead qualification engine has matured over time, Clearbit’s process to operationalize lead scoring, their failsafe to keep quality leads from slipping away, and why getting buy-in from GTM teams is just as important as using data to develop ICPs.

Tune in to hear Eleanor Dorfman’s, Sales Leader at Retool, playbook on building Retool’s sales process (using DoorDash as a real case study), defining Retool’s primary sales channels, and how she structured the sales organization. Eleanor also shares her tips on when to start an outbound sales motion, how to find expansion opportunities, and handling sales compensation.

In this episode of Unlocking Revenue, AJ Bruno, CEO and Co-Founder of QuotaPath, delves into topics like: sales comp at QuotaPath, sales comp trends, guiding business metrics, how to develop sales comp plans around usage-based pricing, and company cultures that incentivize value.

In this episode of Unlocking Revenue, Allison Pickens from dbt Labs dives into the role of Customer Success within self-serve models with topics like: the overlap between customers success, sales-assist, and sales, how the role of customer success is not only present but expanding within product-led growth organizations, choosing the right level of simplicity vs. complexity when building your product adoption and expansion journey, and scalable, self-serve tactics that help supplement customer success.

Tune in to learn about Ramli John’s — Director of Content at Appcues — three-step onboarding formula that drives retention, his thoughts on who owns and who informs onboarding in a modern product-led company, how to deliver the best onboarding experience per customer segment, and how to convince your sales-led organization to adopt product-led onboarding. Plus much more!

In this episode of Unlocking Revenue, Pete Prowitt, Head of Revenue at Stytch discusses challenges and opportunities when you’re the first sales hire at a PLG company, transitioning from sales IC to manager and shares his experiences building sales teams at Loom, Intercom, Box, and Quip.