GTM 138: The AI Advantage, Solving Sales & Marketing Alignment for Better GTM Execution with Jaleh Rezaei

Jaleh Rezaei is the CEO & Co-founder of Mutiny, a company reimagining the B2B buying experience by transforming transactional relationships into meaningful connections through AI-powered personalization. Mutiny helps enterprises restore the human element in modern buying at scale, and is used by some of the fastest growing companies in the world including Amplitude, Snowflake and Qualtrics. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and CMOs of companies such as Uber, Condé Nast and Salesforce. Prior to Mutiny, Jaleh was the Head of Marketing and Business Development at Gusto, where she grew the company from 500 to 50,000 customers over 4 years. She was the Director of Product Marketing at VMware prior to Gusto. 

Discussed in this Episode:

• AI-powered personalization is reshaping B2B sales and marketing
• AI-driven lead scoring improves quality and targets high-value prospects
• AI anticipates and overcomes sales objections in real time
• Sales & marketing alignment: why it matters and how to achieve it
• The risks of AI-driven outbound and how to avoid common pitfalls
• Scaling 1:1 experiences efficiently with AI
• AI-powered buyer interactions and their impact on GTM strategies

Highlights: 

03:27 – Why AI innovation is game-changing for founders building and scaling companies.
 06:49 – How 1:1 sales personalization drives 14x higher conversion rates.
 10:45 – AI-powered hyper-personalization is reshaping enterprise sales.
 16:30 – The biggest AI mistakes in sales and marketing.
 20:55 – Scaling white-glove experiences across all target accounts.
 24:45 – Why CRM data is a mess and how AI finally fixes it.
 28:14 – A masterclass in sales & marketing alignment.
 31:20 – The real reason sales and marketing clash (and how to fix it).
 42:10 – The most valuable AI use cases for B2B sales teams.
 47:30 – How AI is changing B2B buyer behavior and what sellers must do.

Guest Speaker Links (Jaleh Rezaei):

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jalehr/
• Mutiny: https://www.mutinyhq.com/
• The State of Sales & Marketing Alignment Report: https://www.mutinyhq.com/report

Host Speaker Links (Scott Barker):

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssbarker/
• Newsletter: https://thegtmnewsletter.substack.com/

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