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How We're Building A GTM Media Engine @ VibeScaling

Nov 26, 2025

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9 min read

How We're Building A GTM Media Engine @ VibeScaling

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

Chris Balestras
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

10 Takeaways From How Snowflake Scaled GTM

Oct 30, 2025

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10 min read

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
Chris Balestras

Career Stuff

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The Best GTM Teams Hire For Spikes

Sep 30, 2025

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5 min read

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
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

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

Sep 19, 2025

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7 min read

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
Chris Balestras

Career Stuff

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Why I’m Staying at Cognition: The 6-Day Work Week Won’t Scare Me Away

Sep 9, 2025

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6 min read

Why I’m Staying at Cognition: The 6-Day Work Week Won’t Scare Me Away

Choosing the "difficult path"

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

Events

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

Sep 4, 2025

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11 min read

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
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

The Raindrop that Evaporated by Choice

Aug 28, 2025

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4 min read

The Raindrop that Evaporated by Choice

Qualifying out after getting the "Yes"

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

Events

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

Aug 25, 2025

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7 min read

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
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

CRM of the Future: Clarify

Aug 13, 2025

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9 min read

CRM of the Future: Clarify

Almost like if Apple/Superhuman/Equinox made a CRM

Chris Balestras
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

The Mafias of GTM

Aug 7, 2025

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8 min read

The Mafias of GTM

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

Chris Balestras
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

Windsurf Chaos & My 1st 7-Figure Deal

Aug 5, 2025

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10 min read

Windsurf Chaos & My 1st 7-Figure Deal

A tale a grit, teamwork, and creativity

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

GTM Takes

Millions in Runway Burned

Jul 29, 2025

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5 min read

Millions in Runway Burned

Two GTM Mistakes Technical Founders Repeatedly Make

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

Guest Contributors

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

Jul 23, 2025

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12 min read

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
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

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The Mount Rushmore Of GTM Engineering "Plays"

Jul 10, 2025

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6 min read

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
Chris Balestras

Events

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SF is so back

Jun 30, 2025

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5 min read

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
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

Green Eggs & Ham: The AE’s Guide to Deal Resurrection

Jun 24, 2025

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5 min read

Green Eggs & Ham: The AE’s Guide to Deal Resurrection

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

GTM Takes

The Dark Side Of Sales

Jun 23, 2025

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9 min read

The Dark Side Of Sales

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

Chris Balestras
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

$150K to $1M ACV: The Constellation Strategy

May 22, 2025

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6 min read

$150K to $1M ACV: The Constellation Strategy

How to gracefully & rapidly expand deals across siloed orgs

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

GTM Takes

Lipstick On A Pig - ZoomInfo Taking The GTM Ticker

May 20, 2025

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5 min read

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
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

7-Figure W2s & The Golden Compass

May 15, 2025

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4 min read

7-Figure W2s & The Golden Compass

Building your Minimum Viable Org Chart (MVOC)

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

GTM Takes

3 Ways to Land In-Person Meetings

May 9, 2025

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4 min read

3 Ways to Land In-Person Meetings

Face-to-Face is Your Secret Weapon in the Digital Era

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

GTM Takes

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Clay Just Brought The Patagonia Vest To Your GTM Strategy

Apr 29, 2025

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7 min read

Clay Just Brought The Patagonia Vest To Your GTM Strategy

Seeking GTM Alpha - HQ'd in NYC, the finance bro is rubbing off on them

Chris Balestras
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

IRL + Long Commute > Remote

Mar 13, 2025

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5 min read

IRL + Long Commute > Remote

5 tips to hack the commute

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum

GTM Takes

Learn Like Mongo, Join Like Stripe

Mar 10, 2025

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8 min read

Learn Like Mongo, Join Like Stripe

Be so good at your craft, you can sell any product. Join a company with a product so good, even a bad seller can 200%+ their number

Chris Balestras
Chris Balestras

GTM Takes

7-Step Guide to Quarterbacking Product Builds as a Start-Up AE (Part 3 of 3)

Feb 25, 2025

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5 min read

7-Step Guide to Quarterbacking Product Builds as a Start-Up AE (Part 3 of 3)

Julian Sheinbaum
Julian Sheinbaum
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