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He Generated $48M in 18 Months & Exited 3 Businesses (Jesse Stein Story)

Jesse Stein built three businesses by mastering "underpriced attention at scale," including an AI agent that converts leads in 13 seconds vs. the 48-hour industry average.

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Clay’s Secret to Scaling to $3B (Head of Marketing Explains)

Community-led growth only works when your product enables users to build businesses on top of it. Clay's Head of Marketing Bruno Estrella reveals the exact LinkedIn engagement workflow that aligns their entire GTM team on qualified prospects, plus why attribution models fail for PLG products.

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Zero → IPO Mindset: Hiring, GTM that Scales - Max Altschuler

Max Altschuler reveals how GTM Fund's 300 operator LPs scale portfolio companies through AI-powered networks, systematic hiring, and sales.

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From College Dropout to Building a $12M Agency (Connor Jeffers’ Story)

Connor Jeffers built Aptitude Eight from zero to $12M by betting early on HubSpot. Learn why LinkedIn generated 100% of leads for three years and the focus lesson he calls his biggest regret.

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Understory Unfiltered: Marcel Santilli on Building an AI-Native Agency

Marcel Santilli spent years as a CMO before launching GrowthX, an AI-native agency that codifies marketing workflows like software code. Here's what he learned.

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Understory Unfiltered: AI Employees, Not “Agents”: How Lindy Runs on 300+ Automations

Lindy Drope manages 300 AI agents and doesn't know her HubSpot password. Learn how SaaS teams can eliminate sales admin entirely through agentic workflows.

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Understory Unfiltered: Outbound Attribution That Saves Deals: The OutboundSync Story

Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Harris Kenny reveals how OutboundSync recovered a $400,000 Porsche deal and why agency partnerships beat direct sales for GTM.

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Understory Unfiltered: $10M+ ARR, AI, SDRs: Monograph’s Playbook

Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Robert Yuen shares how he went from sleeping on an office air mattress to building a 100-person SaaS company serving architects.

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Understory Unfiltered: Vaibhav Namburi: 11 Failed Businesses, to a SaaS Empire

SmartLead founder Vaibhav Namburi shares how 11 failed businesses, WhatsApp community presence, and platform-as-a-service thinking built an email infrastructure managing 5-7 million mailboxes and 110M+ daily warmup emails.

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Understory Unfiltered: Bootstrapping to $7M+ ARR: Heyreach CEO on Outbound 3.0

Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Nick Velkovski shares how he bootstrapped HeyReach to $7M+ ARR from Macedonia after Y Combinator rejected him twice.

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Understory Unfiltered: How Eli Rubel made $10m in profit while working 20hrs/week

Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Eli Rubel shares how he scaled MatterMade to $4.2M EBITDA, why VCs are not doing good in the AI era, and how he vibe-coded a SaaS product in seven days.

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Understory Unfiltered: Hyperbound: AI That Changes Sales Training Forever

Hyperbound co-founders Sai and Atul share how 25,000 hand-personalized LinkedIn messages led to accidentally building AI sales roleplay, why reinforcement learning discovers behaviors like "negging mid-market prospects," and their prediction that cold outbound will die within five years.

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Understory Unfiltered: Santosh Sharan - From ZoomInfo to ZeerAI

Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Santosh Sharan shares why the same growth playbook never works twice and why two-thirds of SaaS companies will shut down.

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Understory Unfiltered: Nico’s Story: SaaS, Innovation, and Default

Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode with Nico, founder and CEO of Default, on building a unified go-to-market platform

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Understory Unfiltered: Octave’s GTM Engine - AI Agents, Contextual Messaging & 10% Reply Rates

Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode sharing how Octave’s game changing GTM engine

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