GTM 102: Building Trust, Embracing Old-School Tactics, and Scaling Sales Teams with David Greenberger

The GTM Podcast

David Greenberger leads CHEQ’s North America sales team. CHEQ is a cybersecurity platform primarily focused on protecting the Go-to-Market organization (preventing fake leads to sales team, skewed analytics from bots/malicious users etc). David is well-versed in building and perfecting Go-To-Market processes both from $0 and at 100 y/o companies. CHEQ is David’s 5th startup. Directly before CHEQ, David was in a leadership capacity at Hitachi Vantara, in the deep-enterprise Big Data / AI space. Prior to that he's built teams at Foursquare, Yext, Angi and Splash.
Discussed in this Episode:

• The importance of trust in building effective go-to-market strategies.
• Navigating the transition from startups to large enterprises in sales roles.
• Strategies for hiring and developing sales talent with non-traditional backgrounds.
• The value of long-term relationships and "compound interest" in professional growth.
• Balancing internal and external relationships in large organizations.
• The resurgence of old-school, in-person tactics in modern sales approaches.
• Addressing challenges of invalid traffic and bots in digital marketing.

Highlights:
[13:35] – Insights on managing generational differences and career development in sales teams.
[22:05] – David's experience transitioning from startups to a $90 billion organization.
[25:50] – The story of a successful SDR who rapidly progressed to closing multi-million dollar deals.
[37:49] – One thing revenue leaders believe to be true that David thinks is bull$***[40:04] – One thing that is working for David in go-to-market right now
Guest Speaker Links (David Greenberger):
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreenberger/
Host Speaker Links (Scott Barker):
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ssbarker/
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Features conversations with well-known tech executive, VC, and founders - the expert operators in the trenches who have ‘been there, done that’ to build some of the fastest-growing software companies. Every week, a guest joins Scott Barker to dissect their stories, revealing expert insights around what worked, what didn’t, and how things actually went down.
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