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The Crew Podcast

Hosted by Crew · technology · EN · 49 episodes

About this Podcast:

The Crew Podcast interviews GTM leaders and investors at top AI startups and early-stage companies. Every week, host Chris Balestras, co-founder @ Crew (a GTM recruiting, media, & investing firm for seed through series D AI-natives) sits down with operators from the fastest-growing AI natives and SaaS companies to break down what's actually working in go-to-market today. No fluff, no theory - just honest, tactical insights from people in the trenches building the next generation of AI breakouts.Find us @ https://www.withcrew.ai/ & https://www.withcrew.blog/

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What is The Crew Podcast about?

The Crew Podcast interviews GTM leaders and investors at top AI startups and early-stage companies. Every week, host Chris Balestras, co-founder @ Crew (a GTM recruiting, media, & investing firm for seed through series D AI-natives) sits down with operators from the fastest-growing AI natives and SaaS companies to break down what's actually working in go-to-market today.

Who hosts The Crew Podcast?

The Crew Podcast is hosted by Crew. The show has published 49 episodes to date.

What has The Crew Podcast covered recently?

Recent episodes include "This Week in GTM w/ Glenn Rachlin (OpenRouter) | Factory vs Cognition, AI GTM Talent Density, & More" (22 October 2026, 51 minutes), "From Yale Engineer to 3 IPOs: How to Hire the Right Rep for Your Sale | Rich Liu, ex-Navan CRO" (20 October 2026, 53 minutes), and "Why Not All AI Startups Are Defensible & Why Sales Teams Fail w/ Brendon Cassidy, Founding GTM @ LinkedIn" (13 October 2026, 55 minutes).

How often does The Crew Podcast publish?

The Crew Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 49 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on The Crew Podcast?

Booking probability for The Crew Podcast is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Crew Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Crew Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch The Crew Podcast?

The strongest fits for The Crew Podcast are Business & Management Consulting. The Crew Podcast has a technology audience.

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Crew hosts The Crew Podcast, a technology show with 49 episodes published.

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  • The Crew Podcast

    This Week in GTM w/ Glenn Rachlin (OpenRouter) | Factory vs Cognition, AI GTM Talent Density, & More

    Oct 22, 202651 min

    Glenn is the Head of Strategic GTM at OpenRouter, an AI infrastructure platform that helps businesses access and route requests across AI models, optimizing for factors like cost and performance. After building his...

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    From Yale Engineer to 3 IPOs: How to Hire the Right Rep for Your Sale | Rich Liu, ex-Navan CRO

    Oct 20, 202653 min

    Most companies hire sales reps from the hottest logos and hope they work out. Rich Liu has built sales teams at Meta, MuleSoft and Navan, and his rule is to hire for the sale you're actually running. In this episode he...

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    Why Not All AI Startups Are Defensible & Why Sales Teams Fail w/ Brendon Cassidy, Founding GTM @ LinkedIn

    Oct 13, 202655 min

    Brendon Cassidy is the founder of Cassidy Ventures , where he operates, advises, and invests in startups, helping founders with everything from demand and pipeline to their first VP of Sales hire. He was one of...

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    Cyber Risk Has Never Been Higher & Selling Cyber 101 w/ Steve Pascucci VP of Global Sales @ Outtake

    Oct 6, 202654 min

    Steve Pascucci is VP of Global Sales at Outtake, the Series B, AI-native security company building a trust layer for the internet. Backed by CRV and ICONIQ and recently named a Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startup...

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    Live Podcast: The GTM Rebrand, CRO Musical Chairs & Talent Mafias @ Reserve Padel NYC

    Oct 1, 20261h 3m

    Live from Hudson Yards: Crew's first-ever live podcast, recorded at the AI GTM Paddle Club Event at Reserve with roughly 150 of New York's best GTM operators in the room. Crew's twelfth event in two years, and the first...

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    GTM Roundtable: The State of AI-Native Sales w/ Clay, Parallel, Avoca & Profound

    Sep 29, 20261h 31m

    Four sales leaders running revenue at AI-native companies sat down with Chris Balestras to talk about what the job actually looks like right now. Territory plans that get thrown out mid-year. Comp models nobody has...

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    The Science of Sales + Why Founders Hire Sales Too Early w/ Mark Roberge, Stage 2 Capital

    Sep 22, 202659 min

    Mark Roberge is co-founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital , a VC firm backed by roughly a thousand LPs who are go-to-market operators, including the founding CRO of Snowflake and revenue leaders at Anthropic...

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    Building GTM Agents Live + The AI-Pilled AE Operating System w/ Nic Siegle, Founding AE @ Dust

    Sep 18, 20261h 2m

    Nic's Background Nic Siegle is a founding account executive at Dust , the Series B, Sequoia-backed platform for teams of humans and teams of agents. He has been there about a year, placed by Crew's recruiting practice...

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    The 0 to $20M GTM Traps + How To Diligence A Founder w/ Dini Mehta, Operating Partner @ Peak XV

    Sep 15, 202643 min

    Dini Mehta is an Operating Partner at Peak XV, where she parachutes into portfolio companies on go-to-market, sits in exec meetings, runs forecast calls, and hosts open office hours for founders and GTM teams across the...

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    Why I Left VC To Get Back Into The GTM Operating Seat w/ Liam Mulcahy, Head of GTM @ Parallel

    Sep 8, 20261h 9m

    This week Chris sits down with Liam Mulcahy , Head of Go-to-Market at Parallel Web Systems, who spent seven years in venture at Kleiner Perkins before taking an operating role and bringing seven people with him. Liam's...

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    Why Utah Produces Elite Sales Talent + Building The GTM Machine @ Exa w/ Marcus Holm, CRO @ Exa

    Sep 1, 20261h 3m

    Marcus Holm is the Chief Revenue Officer at Exa, the search API built for agents, now used under the hood by Cursor and Cognition's Devin among others. He joined in 2026 after nearly four years at LaunchDarkly, where he...

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    Why Remote Breaks at Scale & the GTM Playbook Behind AI Agents w/ Darren Moffett

    Aug 25, 202657 min

    This week Chris sits down with Darren Moffett , VP of Sales at LangChain, who spent his career building sales orgs at MuleSoft and GitLab before joining LangChain 18 months ago. Darren treats the conversation like an...

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    Inside the GTM Playbooks at Twilio & Vanta w/ Stevie Case, CRO @ Vanta

    Aug 18, 20261h 2m

    Stevie Case is the first CRO at Vanta, the trust management platform, where she's helped scale the business from roughly $20M to past $300M in ARR. Before Vanta, she spent six years at Twilio as it grew from about $200M...

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    The First Sales Hire Mistake That Sinks Startups w/ Rafa Jara-Simkin, Partner @ Theory Ventures

    Aug 11, 202656 min

    Rafa Jara-Simkin is a Partner at Theory Ventures, the research-driven VC founded by Tomasz Tunguz. Before investing, Rafa spent nearly a decade in the GTM trenches. First, he joined Looker as employee ~25 in 2013, and...

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    How We're Scaling Vercel's GTM Motion Through A 9B Valuation w/ Nick Bogaty, CRO @ Vercel

    Aug 4, 202649 min

    Nick Bogaty is the CRO at Vercel, and he got there on one of the least linear paths in enterprise software. He spent roughly a decade in open source, including helping create the book file-format standard behind modern...

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    How the Top 1% Land Sales Offers in 2026 w/ Chris Balestras, Co-founder @ Crew

    Aug 3, 202654 min

    This week's episode runs Chris's usual solo listicle format, but he's not flying solo this time. Instead, he's joined by Matt Roberts, Crew's first hire and the operator running its BDR and SDR search, for a rapid-fire...

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    How Clay Built the GTM Team Behind a $5B Valuation w/ Becca Lindquist, Head of Sales @ Clay

    Jul 28, 20261h 1m

    Becca Lindquist is the Head of Sales at Clay, the go-to-market infrastructure platform that's grown past nine figures and become one of the most loved tools in modern sales. Before Clay, she spent four-plus years at dbt...

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    Why Product Love Doesn't Actually Close Deals w/ Simran Duggal, VP of Sales @ Juicebox

    Jul 21, 202653 min

    Simran Duggal is VP of Sales at Juicebox, an AI-native recruiting platform where she leads GTM across three functions and 18 direct reports. She spent five years at Webflow as one of its early enterprise reps, building...

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    Don't Take the Anthropic Job First w/ Mark Goldberger, VP Sales @ Metaview

    Jul 14, 202658 min

    New episode of the Crew Podcast with Mark Goldberger (VP of Sales at Meadowview, the AI-native recruiting platform). Mark's career is the dictionary definition of the non-obvious path: sommelier tasting 5,000 wines a...

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    How To Pick The Right AI Company To Bet On & Operationalize Champion Building w/ Bryan Cox, VP of Worldwide Sales @ Braintrust

    Jul 7, 202653 min

    Bryan Cox is the VP of Worldwide Sales at Braintrust, the eval and observability platform that builders and frontier model providers alike rely on to ship AI agents. Before Braintrust, Bryan spent nearly five years at...

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