Understand the job
GTM roles and career paths
SDR, AE, AM, growth, product marketing, RevOps, sales leadership: what each one really does and how people move between them.
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SDR, AE, AM, growth, PMM, RevOps: what do these people actually do all day?
An SDR finds and opens conversations, mostly by email, calls and LinkedIn, and hands over meetings, while an AE runs those conversations to a signa...
I am an engineer, a consultant, or fresh out of an MBA. How do I actually switch into GTM?
Your background is not a handicap, it is your entry ticket, but only if you aim at the door it opens. Engineers should look at sales engineering, s...
How do I judge a startup's GTM before I join it, so I am not walking into an unhittable number?
Interview them harder than they interview you, and ask for numbers rather than stories. The four that matter most: what percentage of the team hit ...
What does a world class product marketing function look like, and when does a company need one?
Great product marketing owns one thing that nothing else in the company owns: why a specific buyer should choose you over their real alternatives, ...
What does a genuinely great growth team look like, and how is it different from marketing?
Marketing usually owns the top of the funnel and is measured on leads and signups. A real growth team owns the whole loop, signup to activation to ...