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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

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It’s an incredible look back on scaling and more: Colin Jones, first Chief Revenue Officer at Wiz. Colin joined Wiz in February 2021 when the company was near zero revenue. Rather than seeing this as a liability, Wiz leveraged it as a strategic advantage — even in its sales team.

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The Latest 20VC + SaaStr: Meta’s $1B Talent Raid, the End of Triple-Triple-Double-Double, and Why AI Laggards Are Getting Left Behind

SaaStr

Bottom Line Up Front Jason’s Directness : “It will be the biggest issue of 2026, I think, in B2B AI is just the inability to recruit talent… If you think your answer is to go hire a VP of AI that wears a tie and is studying things like just shut the startup down.” One founder shared that he’s giving away 0.5-1%

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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 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, welcome to the podcast.

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The State of Venture in 2025

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. In 2021, capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and venture moved fast. The bar is higher, but so are the stakes “This isn’t 2021. The environment is leaner, but the outcomes are larger.”

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Why Now Is the Biggest Change in SaaS Sales in 15+ Years

SaaStr

2021 will be the year SaaS sales evolves the most since the Appexchange ecosystem started to take off ~15 years ago, which spawned the entire notion of a true sales app stack. The permanent move to distributed sales teams. Almost every SaaS VP of Sales and CRO I’ve talked to in the past few months isn’t going back.

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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.