Key strategic breakdown from Sangram Vajre on 2 Shifts That Changed How You Scale a Business.
Practical application grounded in the 8 Pillars of the GTM Operating System.
Actionable framework for B2B executive teams, founders, and revenue operators.
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Key Questions Answered in This Masterclass
What are the core insights from "2 Shifts That Changed How You Scale a Business"?
Sangram Vajre breaks down the commercial strategy, organizational diagnosis, and operational steps required to solve this go-to-market challenge using GTM OS.
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Scaling from $10 million to $100 million used to follow one simple formula, raise money, hire expensive executives, give them equity, and let them run the playbook. I've done exactly that twice, taking Pardot into a Salesforce acquisition and building Terminus to a $100 million-plus exit. That formula doesn't work the same way anymore, and here's exactly what changed.
Two shifts explain why the old model broke. First, AI isn't just optimizing go-to-market, it's transforming it, and transformation needs experienced operators, not more junior hires blindly running AI tools. Second, playbooks are losing to frameworks, because playbooks assume a stable environment, and the environment right now genuinely isn't stable.
That's exactly why we're launching Go To Marketplace, a curated bench of forward deployment operators, GTM-certified partners with 10 to 20 years of experience who embed directly into your team instead of raising your headcount or handing you a slide deck. If you're a CEO who can't hire your way to growth anymore, or a go-to-market leader with real experience thinking about going fractional, this is where that connects.
⏱ TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Why the old way to scale from $10M to $100M doesn't work anymore
(00:56) The old playbook, raise money, hire executives, give equity
(02:27) The one assumption that broke, capital was cheap
(03:14) Why PE firms now want $10 back for every $1 invested, not $5
(03:38) A CEO roundtable story, Georgie's $24M company stuck between growth and cash
(05:03) Shift 1, AI is transforming every function of go-to-market
(05:51) Optimization vs. transformation, the real difference
(07:00) Why transformation needs Navy SEALs, not soldiers
(08:10) Shift 2, frameworks are beating playbooks
(09:04) Why the 8-question GTM OS framework replaces the old playbook
(10:39) You only need 1 or 2 things to work, not 100
(11:06) The big idea, forward deployment operators
(12:14) Why they're like fractional CFOs, not consultants
(13:35) Launching Go To Marketplace
(14:38) Are you still trying to hire your way to growth?
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