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Chris Balestras
Chris Balestras

This Week In GTM - Episode 1

The first of our weekly "This Week In GTM" podcast/video series, where we call out tweets we saw from the week + jam out on different sales + startups + AI topics

Chris Balestras
Dec 10, 2025
This Week In GTM - Episode 1

VibeScaling Podcast Episode 2: How Raphael Parker Built Segment's GTM Machine From 0 to $100M in ARR

The VibeScaling Podcast: a weekly podcast where we interview the top GTM leaders @ the fastest-growing AI-natives/SaaS companies on all things GTM + AI + startups

Chris Balestras
Dec 3, 2025
VibeScaling Podcast Episode 2: How Raphael Parker Built Segment's GTM Machine From 0 to $100M in ARR

How We're Building A GTM Media Engine @ VibeScaling

A breakdown of using content to drive our other efforts (advisory, recruiting, fund)

Chris Balestras
Nov 26, 2025
How We're Building A GTM Media Engine @ VibeScaling

5 Takeaways From Our VibeScaling x Factory Event in SF on 11/5

Our fall event series in SF with our portfolio company Factory on all things "selling to developers", including GTM executives @ Factory, Modal, LiveKit, & Fireworks AI

Chris Balestras
Nov 10, 2025
5 Takeaways From Our VibeScaling x Factory Event in SF on 11/5

VibeScaling Podcast Episode 1: Todd Busler, CEO @ Champify

Announcing The VibeScaling Podcast: a weekly podcast where we interview the top GTM leaders @ the fastest-growing AI-natives on all things GTM + AI + startups

Chris Balestras
Nov 3, 2025
VibeScaling Podcast Episode 1: Todd Busler, CEO @ Champify

10 Takeaways From How Snowflake Scaled GTM

Where I agree and disagree with "Make It Snow: From Zero to Billions: How Snowflake Scaled Its Go-to-Market Organization"

Chris Balestras
Oct 30, 2025
10 Takeaways From How Snowflake Scaled GTM

7 Things Top GTM Interviewers Are Doing In 2025 To Land Offers

A new list of what we're seeing behind the scenes, working with hundreds of candidates/hiring managers @ VibeScaling

Chris Balestras
Oct 20, 2025
7 Things Top GTM Interviewers Are Doing In 2025 To Land Offers

Find Your GTM Renaissance: Why NYC and SF Are Still Worth the Move

The Medici effect & why moving to these cities early to mid in your career is worth it

Chris Balestras
Oct 9, 2025
Find Your GTM Renaissance: Why NYC and SF Are Still Worth the Move

The Best GTM Teams Hire For Spikes

What we can learn from Enron (lol), McKinsey, Plaid, Palantir, and others on hiring top talent

Chris Balestras
Sep 30, 2025
The Best GTM Teams Hire For Spikes

Clay is the Most Undervalued Startup in AI @ a $3B Valuation

Why Clay is eating the GTM world + 3 takeaways from VibeScaling's time @ Sculpt, their first conference, in SF this week

Chris Balestras
Sep 19, 2025
Clay is the Most Undervalued Startup in AI @ a $3B Valuation

Why I left big tech for startups in 2021

The navy vs the pirates and a legendary tale from Steve Jobs

Chris Balestras
Sep 11, 2025
Why I left big tech for startups in 2021

11 Tips to Ensure Your Next GTM Opp in AI is the Right One

Takeaways from our SF event on 8/24 with Pylon on how to choose your next homerun GTM opp in AI

Chris Balestras
Sep 4, 2025
11 Tips to Ensure Your Next GTM Opp in AI is the Right One

6 Takeaways From Our VibeScaling x Clay Event on 8/14

First NYC spin of our GTM + AI panel series last week, which is the second of many private GTM events we're throwing in NYC and SF

Chris Balestras
Aug 25, 2025
6 Takeaways From Our VibeScaling x Clay Event on 8/14

CRM of the Future: Clarify

Almost like if Apple/Superhuman/Equinox made a CRM

Chris Balestras
Aug 13, 2025
CRM of the Future: Clarify

The Mafias of GTM

Why humans are driven toward "talent vortexes" and a list of the current mafias in AI-native GTM

Chris Balestras
Aug 7, 2025
The Mafias of GTM

Strategy Consulting Is So Dead - 10 Reasons Why I Left For GTM @ A Startup

10 reasons why you shouldn't blindly listen to the dogma of going into "banking and consulting", and why GTM @ a startup is a great path and way more fun

Chris Balestras
Jul 31, 2025
Strategy Consulting Is So Dead - 10 Reasons Why I Left For GTM @ A Startup

The #1 GTM Play That's Working Right Now To Drive Pipeline

Collab w/ Brendan Short @ The Signal - a deep dive of a top play that is working with our clients: website visitors to auto messaging

Chris Balestras
Jul 23, 2025
The #1 GTM Play That's Working Right Now To Drive Pipeline

The Mount Rushmore Of GTM Engineering "Plays"

4 plays I've seen consistently work at seed thru series B startups I'm working with

Chris Balestras
Jul 10, 2025
The Mount Rushmore Of GTM Engineering "Plays"

SF is so back

Ain't no place better to be building GTM in AI than SF right now & a love letter to the city by the bay

Chris Balestras
Jun 30, 2025
SF is so back

The Dark Side Of Sales

Show Me The Incentive, I'll Show You The Outcome (And Unintended Consequences)

Chris Balestras
Jun 23, 2025
The Dark Side Of Sales

12 Money Tips To Help Your Commission Checks Go Further

I stopped investing in S&P index funds & you should too

Chris Balestras
Jun 10, 2025
12 Money Tips To Help Your Commission Checks Go Further

The GTM Engineer School - Week 2 Overview

Chris Balestras
May 28, 2025
The GTM Engineer School - Week 2 Overview

Lipstick On A Pig - ZoomInfo Taking The GTM Ticker

ZoomInfo changing it's NASDAQ ticker to GTM is like Dominos Pizza changing theirs to KETO

Chris Balestras
May 20, 2025
Lipstick On A Pig - ZoomInfo Taking The GTM Ticker

You're Doing Multithreading All Wrong

Centralize: The Tool That's Using AI For Relationship Mapping

Chris Balestras
May 13, 2025
You're Doing Multithreading All Wrong

The GTM Engineer School - Week 1 Overview

Diving into Octave & Clay

Chris Balestras
May 7, 2025
The GTM Engineer School - Week 1 Overview
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