The GTMnow Podcast

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• How He Built a $250M Company With Zero Employees | Ben Cera, Polsia 29.05.2026 50min

  One Person, $10M+ ARR, $30M Raised: How Ben Cera Built Polsia (AI Operating System) Solo Ben Cera, founder of Polsia, just raised $30M at a $250M valuation while running the entire company alone. His AI agent handles his emails, manages customer support, even led his fundraising calls. This is what a solo founder with an AI operating system looks like at scale. Polsia is an AI operating system that builds and runs companies autonomously. Give it an idea and it builds the product, writes cod...
• The $575B AI Bet (Biggest Since the World Wars) and the New Two-Buyer Reality in Software | Tomasz Tunguz, Theory Ventures 26.05.2026 34min

  AI Infrastructure Spending is Insane: Hyperscalers Betting $575B on the Data Center Race | Tomasz Tunguz This year's data center infrastructure spending will be the 5th largest infrastructure project in history (bigger than everything except railroads and the two world wars). Tomasz Tunguz breaks down what nobody appreciates about the scale of the AI boom. Tomasz Tunguz, General Partner at Theory Ventures, and one of the most insightful voices on AI infrastructure, data stacks, and founder ...
• SEO Is Not Enough Anymore: Webflow's CEO on the Rise of AEO | Linda Tong 20.05.2026 24min

  The future of websites isn't a builder problem anymore. It's an agent problem. In this episode of GTMnow, Sophie Buonassisi sits down with Linda Tong, CEO of Webflow, to unpack how the entire web is being rewritten for a world where humans AND AI agents are your audience. Linda breaks down why Webflow is no longer "just a website builder" (it's an agentic web marketing platform), what the Vidoso acquisition unlocks for AI-generated brand assets, and how the rise of Answer Engine Optimizatio...
• Inside Reevo's $80M Bet to Kill the $10B Frankenstein Stack | David Zhu, Cofounder & CEO 14.05.2026 41min

  AI is rewriting go-to-market and most companies are still operating with a “Frankenstein stack.” In this episode of GTMnow, we sit down with David, founder & CEO of Reevo, to unpack how AI-native companies will replace legacy GTM systems, why the future of sales teams looks radically different, and how AI agents are becoming the new operating layer for revenue teams. David shares why Reevo stayed in stealth while building a vertically integrated AI revenue operating system, the problem ...
• VC: "Software Is Basically Worth Zero Now" | Tyler Hogge, Ex-Pelion 12.05.2026 47min

  Tyler Hogge helped take Divvy from zero to a $2.5B acquisition by Bill.com. Now, as General Partner at Pelion Ventures, he argues that charging for software is dead, per-seat pricing is collapsing, and the next decade of venture-scale companies will be built on outcomes, not subscriptions. In this episode of the GTMnow VC Podcast, Tyler sits down with Max to break down what comes after SaaS pricing, why founder intensity is the only trait that still matters in 2026, and how Pelion concentrate...
• How AI Will Go From Influencing 20% to Making 90% of Your Decisions | Steve Lucas, Boomi CEO 06.05.2026 12min

  Boomi was founded in the early 2000s by Rick Nucci, acquired by Dell in 2010, and then spun out to Francisco Partners and TPG Capital in 2021. Today it powers 30,000+ enterprise customers globally and moves more data per second than the entire Visa card network, times two. What started as an integration platform has evolved into something bigger: the leading data activation company, purpose-built for the agentic AI era. Steve Lucas took over as CEO in early 2023, just as ChatGPT was about t...
• Okta's CRO: From $850M in Losses to $760M Profit (The AI Agent Bet) | Jon Addison 29.04.2026 40min

  Okta's CRO Jon Addison joins GTMnow host Sophie to break down the full story behind Okta's remarkable revenue turnaround, the launch of Okta for AI Agents, and the go-to-market playbook that's carrying them from $3B toward a $5B ARR target. From nearly $850M in operating losses to over $760M in operating income, Okta's transformation is one of the most significant turnaround stories in enterprise SaaS. In this episode, Jon pulls back the curtain on exactly how it happened. In this episode...
• VC: Inside a16z's $1.7B Infrastructure Bet | Jennifer Li, General Partner 28.04.2026 38min

  Jennifer Li, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), breaks down why the firm allocated $1.7 billion of its latest $15 billion fund specifically toward AI infrastructure, and what she's betting on next. Jennifer has backed ElevenLabs from Series A all the way through Series D, watching it grow to an $11 billion valuation. In this episode, she explains what she saw in voice AI before anyone else did, what makes a founder worth backing regardless of the tech, and why the next wave of AI infrast...
• How Figma Scaled From $2M to IPO | Kyle Parrish (First Sales Hire) 22.04.2026 47min

  Kyle Parrish joined Figma as the first-ever sales hire when the company was doing $2M in ARR and helped scale it to $950M ARR. Figma then went on to IPO (FIG). But the path there was anything but smooth. In this episode, Kyle breaks down what it actually took to build Figma's enterprise sales motion from scratch, including the no-discount rule that made procurement teams furious, the 40-hour interview weeks when hiring felt impossible to keep up with, and what it was like to lead a 300...
• How AI Killed the Discovery Call | Sam Senior, Founder & CEO of TestBox 16.04.2026 57min

  AI isn't just changing how we sell. It's changing how buyers make decisions before they ever talk to you. Sam, Founder and CEO of TestBox, joins Sophie on GTMnow to break down exactly what's happening to the B2B software buying process right now, and what go-to-market leaders need to do about it immediately. If you're a founder, CRO, or AE wondering why your pipeline feels different, this conversation will give you a clear framework for what's happening and what to do next. What we cover: Why...
• VC: Your First VC Meeting Will Be Agent-to-Agent | Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital) 15.04.2026 57min

  Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital) joins the GTMnow podcast to share some of the most contrarian takes in tech today, from why AI moats are gone, to why your next VC meeting will be with a bot, to why AI is secretly going to trigger a baby boom. In this episode: - Why Auren runs 500+ AI agents to source deals, and what that means for founders raising capital - The "agent-to-agent" meeting prediction: by end of 2026, first VC conversations will be fully automated - Why every software moat has been ...
• How One Hackathon Took Zapier’s AI Usage From 10% to 97% | CEO of Zapier 08.04.2026 39min

  Wade Foster is the CEO of Zapier, a company that sits between 7,000+ apps and runs millions of automations every single day. That gives him a front-row seat to how companies are actually adopting AI, not just talking about it. In this episode, Wade breaks down the exact decisions he made at Zapier to go from 10% AI usage to 97% company-wide, why agents and workflows are not the same thing, and what most leaders are getting completely wrong about AI fluency. What you'll learn: The difference b...
• VC: Investing at Inception in the Age of AI Agents | Ed Sim (Founder & GP, Boldstart) 01.04.2026 49min

  Ed Sim has been a VC for 30 years. He's backed companies like Clay, Front, BigID, and Snyk. He writes What's Hot in Enterprise IT every single Saturday, 489 weeks in a row. And right now, he says this is the most exciting and terrifying moment he's ever seen in his career. In this episode, Max and Ed break down what's actually happening inside startups and boards right now, why the old playbooks are dead, and what separates the companies that will survive this AI shift from the ones quietly g...
• How Sophos Scales Customer Success for 600,000 Customers in a 24/7 Cyber Threat Environment, with Teresa Anania, SVP of Customer Experience 24.03.2026 41min

  This episode was recorded prior to Teresa Anania’s move to Chief Customer Officer at Verint. At the time of recording, she was SVP of Customer Experience at Sophos. Teresa Anania (CCO at Verint, formerly CCO at Sophos) joins GTMnow to share how she's built customer success into a true revenue engine at a company serving 600,000 customers across over $1 billion in annual revenue, and why the old reactive, relationship-based CS model is no longer cutting it. At Sophos, the threat landscape ...
• Bonus Episode: GTMfund Hires a New Partner! 23.03.2026 22min

  Jason Demant just joined GTMfund as Partner, Head of Networks after 6 years at Foundation Capital where he reviewed over 1,000 emerging manager funds and invested in 100+.In this episode, Max (GP), Paul (GP), and Jason break down what separates the VC firms that survive from the ones that quietly die, why the best founders today are skipping mega funds at pre-seed, and what LPs are excited in about emerging managers.What we cover: The real reason raising from mega funds at pre-seed can backfi...
• Inside ServiceNow’s $10B Go-to-Market Engine with Paul Fipps 17.03.2026 40min

  NEW: @Paul Fipps (President of Global Customer Operations at @ServiceNow) joins GTMnow to break down how ServiceNow built the customer engine behind $10B+ in revenue and 20%+ growth for five consecutive years. From CIO at Under Armour overseeing a 300 million-member connected fitness ecosystem, to now leading global sales, customer success, field marketing, and partners at one of the most disciplined GTM organizations in enterprise software, Paul has seen what it takes to scale from both si...
• What Wins When Anyone Can Build Anything with Brett Queener, Partner at Bonfire Ventures 17.03.2026 59min

  Brett Queener (Partner at Bonfire Ventures) joins GTMnow to share what three decades across Siebel, early Salesforce, co-founding, and seed-stage investing has taught him about what actually wins now that software is cheaper and faster than he ever imagined. Brett was one of the earliest GTM hires at Salesforce when it had seven employees. He helped build the go-to-market playbook that defined a generation of SaaS: enterprise segmentation, sales motion design, product marketing, the whole w...
• AI at the Edge: How Armada is Taking Compute Everywhere the Cloud Can't Go | Dan Wright (CEO of Armada) 10.03.2026 27min

  Dan Wright (Co-founder & CEO of Armada) joins GTMnow to unpack what it actually takes to bring AI infrastructure to the places the cloud was never built to reach. The cloud covers about 30% of the world. The other 70% (think: oil rigs, the Arctic tundra, military ships, remote mines) is where some of the most critical decisions happen, making latency a life-or-death and billions of dollars difference. Armada is building the infrastructure for that part of the world: modular, ruggedized ...
• GTM: Lessons from Figma, Dropbox, and Building Iconic Brands in the Age of AI with Figma’s CMO, Sheila Vashee 03.03.2026 30min

  NEW: @Sheila Vashee (CMO of @Figma) joins GTMnow to share how she thinks about brand building across every stage. From selling brownies at age eight, to second marketing hire at Dropbox scaling to $1B+ in annualized revenue, to now leading marketing at one of the most beloved software brands in the world, Sheila has seen it all. In this conversation, you’ll learn what brand actually means (hint: it's not your logo), how PLG companies make the leap to enterprise, why being obsessively close ...
• VC: 116 Quarters on Quota and What Every Sales Leader Should Be Tracking, with Bill Binch, Operating Partner at Battery Ventures 03.03.2026 52min

  Bill Binch (Operating Partner at Battery Ventures) joins GTMnow to share the operational frameworks he's built across 116 quarters on quota, and what actually changes when you move from driving revenue to advising an entire portfolio. Before Battery, Bill was employee #16 at Marketo, where he led sales from zero revenue through IPO and a Vista Equity acquisition. He then served as CRO at Pendo, helping scale ARR to nearly $100M in only three years. His career spans some of the most defining...