{"id":292,"date":"2024-10-15T14:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2025-03-19T17:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:41:30","slug":"gtm-117-from-0-to-acquisition-in-3-5-years-through-community-led-growth-with-cliff-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/gtm-117-from-0-to-acquisition-in-3-5-years-through-community-led-growth-with-cliff-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"GTM 117: From 0 to Acquisition in 3.5 Years Through Community-Led Growth with Cliff Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cliff-simon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cliff Simon<\/a>\u00a0is the CRO of Carabiner Group, a part of SBI Growth, an advisor, and fractional executive for several high-growth start-ups, where he utilizes his expertise in all things GTM and RevOps. He is an active leader in multiple GTM communities. With almost two decades of broad technology experience, he has anchored GTM teams in SaaS &amp; Service industries including consulting, network &amp; communications, software, e-commerce, and supply chain. Having worked in both Fortune 20 and High-Growth Startups, Cliff prefers the fast pace and the ability to deliver significant impact that comes with working in the startup space. Cliff is a recipient of the 2024 Modern Sales Leader award from HubSpot and a 2024Top 50 CRO to Watch by Pavilion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-discussed-in-this-episode\">Discussed in this Episode:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The power of community-led growth in driving customer acquisition and revenue.<\/li>\n<li>Lessons learned from growing and selling a bootstrapped services business.<\/li>\n<li>Navigating the challenges of rapid growth, including hiring and managing cash flow.<\/li>\n<li>The importance of RevOps and when to invest in a full-time RevOps hire.<\/li>\n<li>Predictions for the future of go-to-market, including the rise of micro-businesses and AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-highlights\">Highlights:<\/h3>\n<p>(15:43) Driving growth through community involvement and providing value.<br \/>(22:58) Hiring challenges during rapid growth.\u00a0<br \/>(27:34) Identifying potential acquirers and navigating the acquisition process.<br \/>(33:00) Lessons learned from the acquisition and what Cliff would do differently.<br \/>(38:27) Predictions for the future of SaaS businesses and go-to-market.<br \/>(42:16) One thing revenue leaders believe to be true that Cliff thinks is bull$***.<br \/>(44:55) One thing that is working for Cliff in go-to-market right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest Speaker Links (Cliff Simon):<br \/><\/strong>LinkedIn:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cliff-simon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cliff-simon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Host Speaker Links (Scott Barker):<br \/><\/strong>LinkedIn:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ssbarker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.linkedin.com\/in\/ssbarker\/<\/a><br \/>Newsletter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegtmnewsletter.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thegtmnewsletter.substack.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.attention.tech\/?utm_source=gtmnow&amp;utm_medium=podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Brought to you by Attention<\/strong><\/a>. Attention\u2019s AI-powered call recording platform ensures that your deals are executed flawlessly. It records your calls, generates next-step summaries, action items, and even creates scorecards for every single call, so your reps can continuously improve. But that\u2019s just the beginning. Attention\u2019s generalized insights allow you to ask any question across all of your conversations \u2013 think of it like ChatGPT for your sales calls. Attention also lets you build automated workflows tailored to your needs. For example, if a customer mentions they\u2019re at risk of churning during a call, Attention can automatically loop in a sales director and solutions engineer to ensure that customer receives the full white-glove treatment, reducing churn and keeping your business thriving. Attention is helping companies onboard reps faster, increase the productivity of their existing teams, and giving revenue leaders unparalleled visibility into their pipelines\u2014all while automating those tedious manual tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The GTM Podcast<\/strong><br \/>Features conversations with the top 1% of tech executives, VCs, and founders \u2013 the experts who have \u2018been there, done that\u2019 to build some of the fastest-growing software companies. Every week, a guest joins Scott Barker to dissect their stories \u2013 revealing what worked, what didn\u2019t, and how things actually went down.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/gtmnow.com\/gtm-117-from-0-to-acquisition-community-led-growth-acquisition-cliff-simon\/\">GTM 117: From 0 to Acquisition in 3.5 Years Through Community-Led Growth with Cliff Simon<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/gtmnow.com\">GTMnow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff Simon\u00a0is the CRO of Carabiner Group, a part of SBI Growth, an advisor, and fractional executive for several high-growth start-ups, where he utilizes his expertise in all things GTM and RevOps. He is an active leader in multiple GTM communities. With almost two decades of broad technology experience, he has anchored GTM teams in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}