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GTM 102: Building Trust, Embracing Old-School Tactics, and Scaling Sales Teams with David Greenberger
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David Greenberger leads CHEQ’s North America sales team. CHEQ is a cybersecurity platform primarily focused on protecting the Go-to-Market organization (preventing fake leads to sales team, skewed analytics from bots/malicious users etc). David is well-versed in building and perfecting Go-To-Market processes both from $0 and at 100 y/o companies. CHEQ is David’s 5th startup. Directly before CHEQ, David was in a leadership capacity at Hitachi Vantara, in the deep-enterprise Big Data / AI space. Prior to that he's built teams at Foursquare, Yext, Angi and Splash.
Discussed in this Episode:
- The importance of trust in building effective go-to-market strategies.
- Navigating the transition from startups to large enterprises in sales roles.
- Strategies for hiring and developing sales talent with non-traditional backgrounds.
- The value of long-term relationships and "compound interest" in professional growth.
- Balancing internal and external relationships in large organizations.
- The resurgence of old-school, in-person tactics in modern sales approaches.
- Addressing challenges of invalid traffic and bots in digital marketing.
Highlights:
[13:35] – Insights on managing generational differences and career development in sales teams.
[22:05] – David's experience transitioning from startups to a $90 billion organization.
[25:50] – The story of a successful SDR who rapidly progressed to closing multi-million dollar deals.
[37:49] – One thing revenue leaders believe to be true that David thinks is bull$***[40:04] – One thing that is working for David in go-to-market right now
Guest Speaker Links (David Greenberger):
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreenberger/
Host Speaker Links (Scott Barker):
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ssbarker/
Newsletter: thegtmnewsletter.substack.com/
Sponsors:
- Brought to you by Flex. Flex is a finance super app built around a credit card with unique Net-60 day terms that enables businesses to make an investment today and pay it back 60 days later with zero percent interest. If your business growth is constrained by the cashflow you need for inventory, advertising, or something else, Flex could provide you with an interesting growth lever.
- Brought to you by Orum. Orum is an AI-powered live conversation platform designed to supercharge sales activity, connect sales teams, and drive more revenue over the phone. Orum’s platform includes an AI-dialer that automates the manual aspects of calling and get sales reps into more conversations, a virtual sales floor for teams to build camaraderie and learn from one another, as well as analytics and coaching tools to help teams improve together.
The GTM Podcast
Features conversations with the top 1% of tech executives, VCs, and founders - the experts who have ‘been there, done that’ to build some of the fastest-growing software companies. Every week, a guest joins Scott Barker to dissect their stories - revealing what worked, what didn’t, and how things actually went down.
This podcast is produced by GTMnow, the media brand of VC firm GTMfund.
Visit gtmnow.com to see more content and subscribe.
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Manage episode 428013062 series 2794536
David Greenberger leads CHEQ’s North America sales team. CHEQ is a cybersecurity platform primarily focused on protecting the Go-to-Market organization (preventing fake leads to sales team, skewed analytics from bots/malicious users etc). David is well-versed in building and perfecting Go-To-Market processes both from $0 and at 100 y/o companies. CHEQ is David’s 5th startup. Directly before CHEQ, David was in a leadership capacity at Hitachi Vantara, in the deep-enterprise Big Data / AI space. Prior to that he's built teams at Foursquare, Yext, Angi and Splash.
Discussed in this Episode:
- The importance of trust in building effective go-to-market strategies.
- Navigating the transition from startups to large enterprises in sales roles.
- Strategies for hiring and developing sales talent with non-traditional backgrounds.
- The value of long-term relationships and "compound interest" in professional growth.
- Balancing internal and external relationships in large organizations.
- The resurgence of old-school, in-person tactics in modern sales approaches.
- Addressing challenges of invalid traffic and bots in digital marketing.
Highlights:
[13:35] – Insights on managing generational differences and career development in sales teams.
[22:05] – David's experience transitioning from startups to a $90 billion organization.
[25:50] – The story of a successful SDR who rapidly progressed to closing multi-million dollar deals.
[37:49] – One thing revenue leaders believe to be true that David thinks is bull$***[40:04] – One thing that is working for David in go-to-market right now
Guest Speaker Links (David Greenberger):
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreenberger/
Host Speaker Links (Scott Barker):
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ssbarker/
Newsletter: thegtmnewsletter.substack.com/
Sponsors:
- Brought to you by Flex. Flex is a finance super app built around a credit card with unique Net-60 day terms that enables businesses to make an investment today and pay it back 60 days later with zero percent interest. If your business growth is constrained by the cashflow you need for inventory, advertising, or something else, Flex could provide you with an interesting growth lever.
- Brought to you by Orum. Orum is an AI-powered live conversation platform designed to supercharge sales activity, connect sales teams, and drive more revenue over the phone. Orum’s platform includes an AI-dialer that automates the manual aspects of calling and get sales reps into more conversations, a virtual sales floor for teams to build camaraderie and learn from one another, as well as analytics and coaching tools to help teams improve together.
The GTM Podcast
Features conversations with the top 1% of tech executives, VCs, and founders - the experts who have ‘been there, done that’ to build some of the fastest-growing software companies. Every week, a guest joins Scott Barker to dissect their stories - revealing what worked, what didn’t, and how things actually went down.
This podcast is produced by GTMnow, the media brand of VC firm GTMfund.
Visit gtmnow.com to see more content and subscribe.
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