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Geoffery Moore: “Zero chance the AI bubble doesn’t pop.” (and who will be safe)
Geoffrey Moore wrote Crossing the Chasm, which has sold more than a million copies and shaped how Silicon Valley thinks about go-to-market. He’s advised the CEOs of Microsoft, Salesforce and Cisco, and he keynoted Pavilion’s GTM conference...
John McMahon has trained 100+ CROs. He’d still tell most of them they weren’t ready.
John McMahon has been CRO at five public companies. His team at PTC built MEDDIC, which is now the most widely used sales methodology in tech. More than 100 CROs came up through his teams (someone once counted 300), including OpenAI’s curre...
Q&A: Dave Kellogg on What Startup Clichés Get Wrong
Asad here!
Humans have prospered a great deal from learnings from the past. Lessons passed down to help us make better decisions today. It’s why understanding history is so important.
Those lessons often get boiled down into catchy phrase...
The Year Every Buyer Tries To Build Their Own Software
Once More Unto the Breach?
We’ve seen it before, and we’ll almost certainly see it again: the software “buy vs. build” conundrum. Back in the 2010s, the big idea was that “buying” meant a company didn’t need to have on-staff reso...
The Two-Company Problem
Burning Down the House
This week on Topline, we talked with Jaleh Rezaei, co-founder and CEO of Mutiny, about one of the hardest decisions a founder can make. Mutiny had built an eight-figure SaaS business before Jaleh decided to shut t...
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Topline Media is built for GTM operators in the age of AI — where shipping is easy & selling is hard. We close that gap with sharp analysis, honest debate & a few laughs: on Substack + across two of GTM’s best podcasts: Topline Podcast & TRLP.
CEO @ Pavilion | Co-Host of Topline Podcast | WSJ Best Selling Author of "Kind Folks Finish First"
The B2B sales cycle is collapsing. I highlight how GTM Operators navigate the change. | GTMshift + SolutionExec | Co-Founded PreSales Collective (Acq. 2021)
Writing The Signal → Exploring how to scale go-to-market with AI & automation instead of headcount • Recovering SaaS founder (2x) • Previously: B2B GTM at Apollo.io, Zoom, and Wiser.
CEO at Attention.com
GP at Primary / Accidental VC. Former CRO at Sailthru and CCO at Marigold post-acquisition. Previously led growth teams at GLG, Savored, TheLadders. Cut my teeth as a TMT analyst at Citi. Die-hard Duke grad, Tuck MBA.
The OG GTM Engineer, I write about actual use cases for AI and GTM with tools you can use Monday. I never write about strategies without tactical tools to implement them.
Mark Roberge is Co-Founder at @Stage2Capital, Prof @HBS, Founding CRO @HubSpot (scaling them from 0 to IPO), and author of bestselling books The Sales Acceleration Formula and The Science of Scaling. He holds an MBA from MIT.
Founder, father of 3 beautiful daughters, successful exits, pilot.
Tim Rutten is CMO at Backbase - the FinTech behind the AI-native Banking OS, used by 120+ leading banks worldwide.
Welcome to The Transaction. The #1 Go-To-Market podcast on the planet. Craig Rosenberg & Matt Amundson talk with the best sales, marketing, ops, & product leaders in B2B SaaS about what's working in the new playbook for the post-ZIRP market.
2x AI founder/ceo
Laurie is CMO at Clari + Salesloft, where she leads go-to-market strategy and market expansion. She’s spent two decades building brands and teams at companies like ServiceNow, Smarsh and Citigroup — from emerging tech to Fortune 100.
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