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The VP of AI Trap: Why Hiring One Exec Won’t Transform Your Company. In Fact, It May Make It Worse.

SaaStr

Recruiters cold-calling anyone with “machine learning” on their LinkedIn. A “VP of Mobile” in 2015? Your sales team needs to understand how AI can improve lead scoring and outreach. It cascades down through middle management. Would you hire a “VP of Internet” in 2010?

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup

Sales Hacker

06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around. 13:26 The speed dating hack that landed Coffee’s first sales leader. 17:36 What Doug learned running Sales Cloud at Salesforce — and why he left. 24:37 Why sales tech stacks are bloated — and how AI-native CRMs solve it.

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GTM 148: Winning Every Tech Shift from a 3X Founder (From Internet to AI)

Sales Hacker

Previously, he was the founder of Get Feedback, which was acquired by Campaign Monitor in 2015. Do I have pipe coverage for my sales team? Like, how, how is my sales team executing against their quota? So everything from product and engineering, uh, hr, recruiting IT security. Sean, welcome to the podcast.

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GTM 149: Inside Meta’s $10B Sales Playbook with Rick Kelley

Sales Hacker

Over his 15-year career at Meta, Rick was instrumental in driving international expansion, especially across Europe, the Middle East, and Africahelping to localize strategy, scale high-performing sales teams, and bring new ad products to market. Rick is the former managing director of Meta Ireland. Rick Kelley: You’re right.

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GTM 150: 80% of Exec Roles Aren’t Posted, Here’s How to Land Them Anyway with Andy Mowat

Sales Hacker

With over two decades of experience leading marketing ops, sales ops, and go-to-market infrastructure, Andy is a true pioneer of modern RevOps. The Value of Niching Down ” → Encourages candidates to specialize and be specific to stand out and receive better, faster support from networks and recruiters. What GTM functions (e.g.

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Systematizing Go-To-Market Hiring

Tom Tunguz

It formed the basis for a career at HubSpot predicated on consistent quantitative analysis to scale the go-to-market, which he detailed in the Sales Acceleration Formula in 2015. I think it’s still one of the best books on how to repeatably scale sales teams. What would the chart above look like for your sales team?

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.