Behind the scenes with top go-to-market practitioners to understand their mindset and tactics: how they define go-to-market, their journey to the top role, team, top of mind challenges and goals. Learn how product, sales, marketing and customer success leaders create internal alignment, achieve desired outcomes and help their teams perceive their customer in a human way.
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From Oracle and SAP to Founder to Stanford: Holly Roland on Building GTM That Compounds with AI In this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay Damojipurapu sits down with Holly Roland, former executive at SAP and Oracle and founder of Rebel GTM, to break down what go-to-market really means in today’s AI-driven world. Holly introduces a simple but powerful framework: go-to-market is an infinity loop of discovery and value, where buyers move from awareness to purchase, and then into expansion, cross-sell, and advocacy. Yet most B2B companies still over-index on acquisition while underinvesting in the value loop. Drawing from decades of experience across enterprise tech and Read More -
How GTM Teams Win More by Moving Faster with Kris Rudeegraap, Sendoso CEO In this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay Damojipurapu sits down with Kris Rudeegraap, co-CEO of Sendoso, to explore how modern go-to-market teams are evolving beyond traditional sales and marketing and why agility, creativity, and customer experience are now the real drivers of revenue. Kris shares his journey from early entrepreneurial hustles and sales roles to founding Sendoso, a category-defining platform that transformed direct mail and gifting into a scalable GTM channel. Along the way, he reveals how identifying untapped channels became his competitive advantage and how that mindset shaped Read More -
In this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay Damojipurapu sits down with AJ Gandhi, Chief Growth Officer and Go-To-Market Operating Partner, to unpack what it really takes to build a high-performing, holistic GTM engine. With a career spanning Bain, McKinsey, venture-backed startups, Salesforce, RingCentral, and private equity, AJ brings a rare 360-degree perspective on strategy, sales, marketing, partner ecosystems, and post-sales execution. AJ defines go-to-market as the entire lifecycle journey of a customer — not just sales — and explains why most companies underperform because they fail to integrate product, marketing, sales, partners, and customer success into a unified system. They dive into: Read More -
In this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay Damojipurapu sits down with Joseph Sirosh, Founder & CEO of CreatorsAGI, to explore how go-to-market strategy fundamentally changes in the age of AI, and why trust, differentiation, and customer clarity matter more than ever. With nearly three decades of experience leading AI initiatives at FICO, Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Compass, and Alexa Shopping, Joseph shares rare behind-the-scenes insights into how AI products actually make it to market, from early neural networks and fraud detection to today’s agentic AI systems. The conversation spans founder-led sales, product-led vs. sales-led growth, and why AI forces companies to rethink how customers Read More -
IIn this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay Damojipurapu speaks with Akshay Doshi, SVP of Sales at SpotDraft, about building repeatable value in B2B SaaS—and why great go-to-market is ultimately about elevating customers, not just closing deals. Akshay shares his journey from SDR to sales leader, including formative lessons from customer success, enterprise account management, and scaling sales teams during uncertainty—most notably, building SpotDraft’s GTM engine just as the pandemic reshaped buying behavior worldwide. The conversation explores how modern GTM leaders can design sales motions that mirror the customer experience, create trust through expectation-setting, and build systems that scale culture—not just revenue. They Read More -
In this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay Damojipurapu sits down with Gamiel Gran, Partner at Mayfield, to explore how decades of GTM experience—from IBM and Oracle to BEA Software and now venture capital—have shaped his philosophy on customer-centric growth and founder leadership. Gamiel shares timeless lessons from building sales teams, scaling enterprise software in the early internet era, and coaching today’s AI-first founders through the next great technology shift. His message is simple but profound: it’s not about you—it’s about them. They dive into: How curiosity and empathy separate great salespeople from quota chasers. Lessons from IBM’s legendary consultative sales training and Read More -
In this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay Damojipurapu sits down with Alon Ahronberg, VP of Customer Success at Atera, to explore how customer success drives sustainable revenue and long-term retention in modern B2B companies. From his early career in engineering and BI consulting to leading customer success at global SaaS startups, Alon shares lessons from scaling teams, building onboarding frameworks, and transforming a PLG motion into a hybrid sales-led growth (SLG) strategy. Together, they unpack: How to define go-to-market holistically across product, sales, marketing, and customer success. The critical role of onboarding and re-onboarding in improving renewal rates and product adoption. Why internal collaboration Read More -
In this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay Damojipurapu sits down with Cy Khormaee, co-founder of AegisAI, to explore his journey from computer science research and early Microsoft days to entrepreneurship, Google, and eventually building AegisAI. Cy shares insights into curiosity-driven sales, the challenges of scaling security solutions, lessons from pivots like reCAPTCHA, and how entrepreneurs can stay ahead of technological and market shifts while remaining grounded in customer problems. They dive into: How curiosity and problem-solving shaped Cy’s GTM approach from Microsoft through startups. Lessons from Contastic and Google that informed AegisAI’s AI-native solutions. Why focusing on real customer pain is the foundation Read More -
In this episode of the B2B Go-To-Market Leaders Podcast, Vijay sits down with Maximilian Gartner, Head of Go-To-Market at Brightwave, to explore how GTM leaders can balance sustainable growth with predictable revenue, while staying rooted in authentic, founder-led perspectives. Max shares his journey from inside sales “boiler rooms” to leading GTM teams at high-growth companies, and how lessons from cold-calling, enterprise deal cycles, and sales leadership shaped his philosophy on customer-first GTM. They dive deep into: Why founder-led POVs are powerful in early stage, and how they must evolve as companies scale. The critical difference between predictable and sustainable revenue, and why ignoring sustainability leads to churn. Lessons from inside sales: Read More