How the best do it

How great operators think

The mental models, the judgment calls, and the non-obvious moves behind good go-to-market.

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When should you add a sales team on top of a self serve product, and how do you avoid breaking it? Elena Verna's rule is that most companies do this too soon and for the wrong reasons. The signals that sales will actually help are an average orde... Leading a GTM team 4 resources → What does Emily Kramer say your first marketing hire must already be able to do? Emily Kramer, who led marketing at Asana and Carta and now runs MKT1, names the number one mistake as hiring someone with too many firsts. She scor... Breaking into GTM 4 resources → Why do operators like Nithin Kamath and Sridhar Vembu refuse to buy growth? Nithin Kamath states it as a freedom rather than a sacrifice: it is a good place to be when you do not have to look at customers in terms of acquis... Breaking into GTM 5 resources → Why does Elena Verna say a growth model needs replacing roughly every 18 months? Elena Verna, who has run growth at Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey, thinks in loops rather than funnels: a funnel is linear and spends it... Doing the work 4 resources → Why does Sajith Pai say India is three markets, and what does that do to your GTM? Sajith Pai of Blume Ventures writes the Indus Valley report, and his India1, India2, India3 framing exists because treating India as one market qui... How the best do it 3 resources →
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