Sam Jacobs

Pavilion · New York

Founder of Pavilion, the peer community where most GTM executives compare notes, and co-host of Topline

Why they're worth your time

Topline is the closest thing to overhearing how CROs and CEOs are actually reading the market: which multiples are holding, what is happening to sales headcount, how compensation plans are shifting. He is also candid about the operator career itself, including getting fired, negotiating equity, and what a revenue leadership job really demands.

Background

Sam Jacobs spent roughly 15 years in New York go to market roles, including CRO of Behavox and The Muse and SVP of sales and marketing at Livestream, before launching Revenue Collective in 2016 and growing it into Pavilion, a paid community of more than ten thousand go to market executives. He wrote Kind Folks Finish First, co-hosts the Topline podcast with AJ Bruno and Asad Zaman, and writes a Substack.

Known for

Where they're public

Their own channels. Read the work first.

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