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Everything Now is Just So Much Faster in The AI Age. Have You Adjusted?

SaaStr

“I just get so much more done today with the AI on the team instead of the humans on the team.” — leading CMO to me, last week. Same APIs, same databases, same development cycles. Top 10 companies now get 52% of all venture funding (up from 16% in 2015). Fast as Frack. I’ve seen cycles. ” 2025 is different.

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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

But behind every product launch and revenue milestone is a team – and building that team is one of the hardest and important parts of the journey. Build the team that builds the company.” – that is part of your go-to-market strategy responsible for growth. I love this part. Doug is a multi-time founder and product leader.

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

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The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Sean Whiteley is a three-time founder and the current CEO of Qualified, the AI pipeline automation platform purpose-built for inbound GTM teams. Previously, he was the founder of Get Feedback, which was acquired by Campaign Monitor in 2015.

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

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The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rick Kelley is the former VP of Metas Global Business Group, where he led a $10B+ revenue organization and played a pivotal role in building out Metas go-to-market teams across North America and EMEA. So, in 2002, I went to go and work at Yahoo.

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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

How to Work with VC Talent Teams ” → A tactical guide on how to engage with venture capital talent teams effectively (e.g., How to Work with VC Talent Teams ” → A tactical guide on how to engage with venture capital talent teams effectively (e.g., what to ask, how to prepare, what not to do). In 2021, right?

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The Perils and Pitfalls of the “Been There, Done That” VP: Posers and Mercenaries

SaaStr

Sometimes it’s VP Sales (OK, often, this is the most common mishire — another post here on what a really great VPS can do for you, and how a poor one can wreck your company, coming). The #1 reason to do a start-up is Career Development. It’s one of our enduring topics on SaaStr. Sometimes it’s VP Marketing.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

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Founded : 2015. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founded : 2015.