Don't Hire the Wrong CMO for Your Stage

Name: Don't Hire the Wrong CMO for Your Stage
Uploaded: 2026-09-15T08:00:00Z
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Sangram Vajre
Description: A CEO running a 24 million dollar company told me he wanted to hire a CMO for 350K plus equity, but he could not raise another round to fund the team and tech stack that person would need. I asked him one question. Do you have the money to support them before they can even start? He did not know. If you hire someone to

Sangram Vajre

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A CEO running a 24 million dollar company told me he wanted to hire a CMO for 350K plus equity, but he could not raise another round to fund the team and tech stack that person would need. I asked him one question. Do you have the money to support them before they can even start? He did not know. If you hire someone to scale your business and then treat them like an individual contributor with no resources, that hire was never going to work. Take the GTM OS assessment at runongtmos.com/move before your next executive hire. #GTMOS #CMOHiring #B2BLeadership #ExecutiveHiring #StartupGrowth

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