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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

SaaStr

What makes this growth story particularly fascinating is how quickly their go-to-market (GTM) organization scaled from just 3 people to 75 in less than a year. The 5 Key Elements of Codeium’s GTM Scaling Playbook 1. The first GTM hires are your most important Your initial sales team sets the culture and performance bar.

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4 Unexpected Learnings from Databricks’ Sales Growth Machine From Its VP of Sales

SaaStr

A little ways back Databricks VP of Sales Heather Akuiyibo joined SaaStr to share unexpected things that work well at Databricks GTM organization as well as some things that havent worked as well. Territory Transitions – The hypergrowth required constant territory realignments, which created friction with both customers and AEs.

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How to navigate the shift from Product-Led Growth to Enterprise

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies. Inbound requests for larger contracts and enterprise agreements.

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The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy

Sales Hacker

Where you can apply this GTM strategy. How to map your GTM strategy to different customer segments. Using CAC to model your GTM strategy. 1) Across regions. Regions often respond with a 1-2 year delay to the US Market. Regions often respond with a 1-2 year delay to the US Market. 2) Spanning markets.

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From PLG to PLG+SLG – How Lucid Scaled to 70M+ Users

SaaStr

Stephanie Couzin, the VP of GTM Strategy and Ops, and Roderick De Greef, the VP of Sales and GM EMEA, share Lucid’s transition from a PLG company to a PLG and Sales-Led company. Customers’ needs also differ from region to region, so how do you solve this complexity? Now, 33% of Lucid’s revenue is from EMEA.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Product Training for Sales Teams

Highspot

By aligning go-to-market (GTM) teams under one shared knowledge base, you equip each functionsales, marketing, customer support, and others to seamlessly collaborate, maintain a consistent brand voice, and deliver outstanding customer experiences. Armed with this knowledge, teams can drive GTM success. Did you know?

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Sequoia India: 22 Things We Learned from SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

Companies in our region are good at achieving PMF and scaling to $1 million-$5 million ARR efficiently. Learnings on GTM. Pricing/Packaging (PP) is a key component of GTM. PP could be a strategic enabler of GTM scale up if done well. PMF and GTM execution are table stakes. That’s too tactical.

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