10 Lessons From Building a $100M Exit

Name: 10 Lessons From Building a $100M Exit
Uploaded: 2026-09-08T08:00:00Z
Duration: 26 min 19 s
Channel: Sangram Vajre
Description: 20 years of go-to-market lessons, distilled into 10 things I wish someone had told me on day one. I built two companies to $100M+ exits, wrote three books, and now work with over 5,000 companies running on the GTM operating system. In this video I walk through the 10 lessons that actually moved the needle for me, from

20 years of go-to-market lessons, distilled into 10 things I wish someone had told me on day one.

Sangram Vajre

Co-Founder, GTM Partners & Author of MOVE • Verified GTM OS Pioneer

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20 years of go-to-market lessons, distilled into 10 things I wish someone had told me on day one. I built two companies to $100M+ exits, wrote three books, and now work with over 5,000 companies running on the GTM operating system. In this video I walk through the 10 lessons that actually moved the needle for me, from why category creation beats demand gen to why you can't hire your way out of go-to-market debt. Drop a comment on which lesson hits hardest for your business and I'll go deeper on it in a future video. (00:00) 20 years of B2B lessons in one video (01:14) Lesson 1: Category creation beats demand gen (04:11) Lesson 2: Firmographics don't mean fit (06:17) Lesson 3: Marketing should report into revenue (08:32) Lesson 4: Consistency compounds (the 1,000-episode podcast) (11:29) Lesson 5: Clarity beats marketing (my daughter's book) (13:31) Lesson 6: You can't hire your way out of GTM debt (16:29) Lesson 7: The CMO role is dying (17:52) Lesson 8: Why the math favors forward deployment operators (20:33) Lesson 9: The enablement gap coming for AI companies (23:06) Lesson 10: Frameworks beat playbooks (25:41) Recap and what to do next Get your free GTM assessment at runongtmos.com/move. #GTMOS #GoToMarket #B2BMarketing #StartupLessons

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