# gtmnow (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover gtmnow. Page: Feed: --- ## Will Salesforce Win the AI Era Like It Won Cloud? | Kris Billmaier _2026-08-11 · The GTMnow Podcast_ Is Salesforce the dominant player in the AI platform shift, or the incumbent about to be disrupted? Kris Billmaier, EVP and GM of Agentforce Sales and Growth Products, sat down with Sophie Buonassisi at Salesforce Tower to answer that directly. Kris runs the business behind Sales Cloud's 26-year run and its rebrand into Agentforce Sales. He makes the case that CRM is becoming "agentic revenue… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19630484-will-salesforce-win-the-ai-era-like-it-won-cloud-kris-billmaier.mp3) ## Inside Deel's $1M → $1.5B Sales Machine | Chris Lee _2026-08-03 · The GTMnow Podcast_ Chris Lee joined Deel at $1M in revenue. Now, it just hit $1.5B. He joined GTMnow to walk through the pivotal decisions behind that run, including the ones he's never discussed publicly. Chris (Head of Sales, Americas at Deel) breaks down the "five-star sales experience" framework he built by studying luxury hotels, why speed itself became a reason customers bought, how he's had zero regrettable… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19591997-inside-deel-s-1m-1-5b-sales-machine-chris-lee.mp3) ## Inside Merge: The $75M Bet on Open Source AI (Powering OpenAI, Netflix & Uber) | Shensi Ding, CEO _2026-07-22 · The GTMnow Podcast_ The Co-Founder & CEO of Merge joins GTMnow to break down how she built a company that now powers integrations for OpenAI, Perplexity, Netflix, Uber, Mistral, and enterprise logos like Mastercard, JP Morgan, and Amex, backed by $75M from Accel and NEA. Shensi gets tactical on the GTM decisions behind that growth: why she went enterprise-first into greenfield, why she's now layering a self-serve… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19532017-inside-merge-the-75m-bet-on-open-source-ai-powering-openai-netflix-uber-shensi-ding-ceo.mp3) ## The Blueprint for a High-Performing Sales Team | Brian Le, Notion _2026-07-09 · The GTMnow Podcast_ Are your sales compensation plans driving the right behaviors or causing your best reps to quit? In this episode of GTMnow, Brian Le (Global Sales Compensation Partner at Notion) breaks down how to build a scalable sales comp operating system. Brian shares his firsthand experience scaling Notion's sales comp from 80 to over 400 employees and explains why trust is the ultimate currency in revenue… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19469272-the-blueprint-for-a-high-performing-sales-team-brian-le-notion.mp3) ## VC: How a 2-Person Fund Runs Like a Startup (Memos, KPIs, R&D) | Vanessa Larco, Premise (ex-NEA) _2026-07-08 · The GTMnow Podcast_ "Investing in companies that OpenAI won't kill." That's Vanessa Larco's thesis, and in this VC bonus episode of GTMnow she breaks down exactly how she decides what survives. Vanessa, founder and GP at Premise (formerly a longtime partner at NEA, where she backed Robinhood from seed to IPO), joins Max to get into the nitty gritty of how AI is rewriting venture, distribution, and the entire… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19463572-vc-how-a-2-person-fund-runs-like-a-startup-memos-kpis-r-d-vanessa-larco-premise-ex-nea.mp3) ## Why a $1.2B exit felt like his biggest failure, and the customer-obsession thesis behind Agency _2026-07-02 · The GTMnow Podcast_ A $1.2 billion exit is the dream. Elias Torres calls it his biggest failure. The Drift co-founder joins Sophie Buonassisi on GTMnow to unpack why the headline number felt hollow, what he learned in the quiet stretch afterward, and why he jumped straight back in to build Agency, an AI company that runs your entire customer organization. Elias gets honest about identity after the exit, the… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19435427-why-a-1-2b-exit-felt-like-his-biggest-failure-and-the-customer-obsession-thesis-behind-agency.mp3) ## [From DeepMind to 200 Customers in 20 Countries: Building the Execution Layer for Sales | Adam Liska, CEO of Airspeed](https://gtmnow.com/gtm-196-ai-sales-execution-gap-adam-liska-airspeed/) _2026-06-25 · The GTMnow Podcast_ The single most expensive sentence in sales is "I'll follow up on that." Adam Liska joins Sophie Buonassisi on GTMnow to break down the "execution gap," the space between knowing what to do in a deal and actually doing it, and why that gap is where most pipeline quietly dies. Adam left DeepMind's Gemini team in 2022, pre-ChatGPT, to build a native revenue execution platform now serving 200… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19400768-from-deepmind-to-200-customers-in-20-countries-building-the-execution-layer-for-sales-adam-liska-ceo-of-airspeed.mp3) ## VC: How Benchmark Picks AI Winners - Max 10 Bets a Year, 5 Partners | Chetan Puttagunta (GP) _2026-06-24 · The GTMnow Podcast_ Benchmark's Chetan breaks down why the path from $0 to $100M has collapsed from five years to under two, and the one thing that is actually getting harder in the AI era: reaching your first million in revenue. In this VC bonus edition of the GTM Now Podcast, he sits down with Sophie Buonassisi to unpack how AI native companies are compressing 180 day sales cycles into 30 days, why direct sales is… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19396155-vc-how-benchmark-picks-ai-winners-max-10-bets-a-year-5-partners-chetan-puttagunta-gp.mp3) ## Ads in ChatGPT Are Coming. What B2B Marketers Should Do Right Now | Keith Delaney, CEO Primer _2026-06-17 · The GTMnow Podcast_ LinkedIn CPMs just hit $800. AI is flooding every channel with content. Outbound is dying. So where should B2B marketers actually spend their ad budget right now? Keith Putnam-Delaney, co-founder & CEO of Primer, joins Sophie to break down the complete state of B2B paid advertising, what's broken, what's working, and where the real opportunities are hiding in 2025. What you'll learn: - Why… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19360374-ads-in-chatgpt-are-coming-what-b2b-marketers-should-do-right-now-keith-delaney-ceo-primer.mp3) ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WfidSDv0oTTF) _2026-06-17 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## He's Seen 300+ Sales Comp Plans. 90% Make the Same Mistake | Siva Rajamani (Everstage CEO) _2026-06-15 · The GTMnow Podcast_ Most sales comp plans are quietly broken, and the people running them have no idea. Siva Rajamani, CEO of Everstage, has visibility into 300+ enterprise comp plans, and he says 90% of companies make the same mistakes. In this episode he breaks down what's going wrong, how to spot it, and what a comp plan that actually drives revenue looks like. Siva explains why sales compensation is not a back… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://mgln.ai/e/p23020/www.buzzsprout.com/2090897/episodes/19347759-he-s-seen-300-sales-comp-plans-90-make-the-same-mistake-siva-rajamani-everstage-ceo.mp3)