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10 Things Startups Get Wrong Selling to Developers and Engineers (from the CRO Who Scaled Databricks from

SaaStr

Here are the 10 biggest mistakes he sees startups make when selling to technical buyers—and how to fix them. Hiring Non-Technical Sales Leaders for Technical Products The Mistake : Founders think great sales skills translate to any market.

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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

SaaStr

Ron explains: “Wehire mostly technical backgrounds, but as our customers get larger and larger, you start to get global account managers, and they’re going to have much more business strategic account management experience. Similar to most structures of a technical sales team. We tend to be very technical.

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Why marketing must reclaim GTM design in the age of AI

Martech

As AI-powered workflows become central to sales and RevOps, go-to-market (GTM) execution is increasingly dominated by high-volume, sales-led outreach. Marketing should have stepped into a larger strategic role as revenue movements evolved. “I actually like the engineering mindset,” he said.

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Sales In The Age of AI: The Playbook from The CROs of Databricks, Windsurf, Perplexity and Owner

SaaStr

” – Ron Gabrisko, CRO, Databricks Databricks scaled from under $1 million to over $3 billion ARR with a predominantly technical sales organization. .” They can code, they can do POCs, they can do pilots.”

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CRO Confidential: Bringing Product-Led and Sales-Led Growth Together For Go-To-Market Success with Giancarlo Lionetti, CRO of Zapier

SaaStr

In this latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. At the same time?

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The Secret to Global Sales Expansion in Uncertain Times

Sales Hacker

One of the first steps when you’re preparing to move into a new market is to create a cross-functional, go-to-market strategy. Gain agreement from everyone involved on market status, product, marketing, customer success investments, success metrics, and timeline.

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Sales Proof of Concept (POC): 5 Ways to Drive More Revenue

Sales Hacker

To help demystify this sales POC term and provide context for all go-to-market professionals, let’s expand on each of these terms and identify five things the pre-sales professional can do to drive more revenue within the middle of the funnel. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial. Seller’s Cost: Low/Medium.