This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Blake Bartlett, Partner at OpenView.

Blake is a partner at one of the most well known SaaS venture capital firms in the world, OpenView Venture Partners, based in Boston. He spends most of his time trying to advance the product-led growth movement, both through thought leadership and investing at pioneers like Expensify and Calendly. He's been a VC since 2007, and prior to OpenView was at Battery Ventures, where he invested in companies like Glassdoor, Wayfair, and Optimizely.

What You’ll Learn 

• Product-led growth means focusing on the end-user

• VCs differentiate by recognizing that they’re basically auditioning for the board

• A key mistake of startups is a lack of focus

• VPs of sales/marketing need to be flexible and willing to reinvent themselves

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

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On this episode of Friday Fundamentals, we talk about how Artificial Intelligence can do the heavy lifting with our quantitative, analytical, and repetitive work so that we can be more creative in our day-to-day operations.

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

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This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Tameka Vasquez, AVP of Global Marketing for the High-Tech and Manufacturing division at Genpact.

Tameka is a Marketing and Business Development Strategist and educator with nearly a decade of experience in the tech industry. She’s also a professor of Marketing Management at St. John’s University, and a public speaker who’s participated in conferences and thought leadership events all over the world. She was the 2018 recipient of the Innovators and Disruptors Award sponsored by New York On Tech and NBCUniversal, and she was the 2019 nominee for the Rising Star Award for Women in AI sponsored by VentureBeat. 

Today we have a big picture discussion on how trends (digitization, the internet, technology, etc.) are intersecting in terms of disrupting the overall economy globally.

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

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On this episode of Friday Fundamentals, we're talking about the strategic questions to ask that will focus on your candidate's values - not just their skills.

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

Visit gtmnow.com for more episodes and other interesting content.

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Pete Crosby, Chief Revenue Officer at Ometria.

Prior to Ometria, Pete has been growing SaaS revenue teams for almost 20 years. He’s run revenues at the Viadeo from Series A to IPO, and most recently took Triptease from $2 million to $10 million in a successful Series B in just 18 months. He's one of the three founding members of the London Revenue Collective. Today we’re talking about the management track, employee motivation, and the levers of sales velocity.

What You’ll Learn 

• Why not every top-performing SDR is cut out for management — & who is

• 2 Frameworks for motivating your employees

• The 4 levers of sales velocity & why this number baffles the board

• Book recommendations & shoutouts galore

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

Visit gtmnow.com for more episodes and other interesting content.

On this episode of Friday Fundamentals, we give you some practical and actionable steps that you can take to translate your strategy into a successful outcome.

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

Visit gtmnow.com for more episodes and other interesting content.

On this episode of Friday Fundamentals, we're talking about the strategic questions to ask that will focus on your candidate's values - not just their skills.

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Cameron, Founder and Managing Partner of SaaSy Sales Management.

Matt is a New Zealander by birth, an Australian by accent, and adopted American. He's worked at Salesforce and Yammer, acquired by Microsoft, before founding SaaSy. SaaSy Sales Management runs in-person, public, and private workshops to teach go-to-market SaaS leaders how to produce the best outcome for their company and their people. 

What You’ll Learn 

• Getting your one on ones right by asking these 5 questions

• Lessons Matt learned from kickboxing that apply to business

• Founders should move to the region where they want to expand into

• Advice about goal-setting for people who are new in their career journey

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

Visit gtmnow.com for more episodes and other interesting content.

On this episode of Friday Fundamentals, we discuss the types of questions that a candidate can ask that will not only leave an impression but potentially land you the job!

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

Visit gtmnow.com for more episodes and other interesting content.

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ellie Tamari, the VP of North American Sales at Namogoo.

Today we are incredibly excited to have a recent friend, member of the Boston chapter of the Revenue Collective, and female sales leader that came to the role somewhat later in life — Ellie Tamari. Namogoo is a company that helps make sure that customers of e-commerce companies and retailers don't get hijacked by malware during checkout., Over the past 20 years, Ellie has helped countless brands significantly move the needle by focusing on their customer's online journey. 

What You’ll Learn

• It’s never too late to start a career in sales leadership

• Collaboration and culture is the way to manage a remote team

• A manager is there to solve her team’s problems

• Young women often aren’t aware of how perfect a fit sales leadership can be for them

The GTMnow Podcast
The GTMnow Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth.

Visit gtmnow.com for more episodes and other interesting content.