How Vaibhav Namburi Built SmartLead to $20M+ ARR with Cold Email

🎙️ The Cold Email Doctor is IN: How to Outbound Like a Pro in 2025 ❄️💉

Everyone wants to know: What’s still working in cold email? And this week, we brought in the guy who’s got more data than anyone else in the game—Vaibhav Namburi, founder of Smartlead and a certified beast when it comes to cold outreach.

He’s not just running a $20M+ ARR bootstrapped SaaS company—he’s rewriting the rules of outbound with actual results, not recycled LinkedIn takes.

🔥 In this episode, we dig into:

• Why your emails are landing in spam (and how to fix it)
• The new rules for subject lines, links, and copy in 2025
• How to beat enterprise spam filters (yes, even at Nike or Apple)
• The real reason your deliverability sucks—and how AI can help
• How Smartlead sends thousands of emails that actually hit inboxes

We also bring audience members on live and dissect their outbound strategies—real emails, real advice, no fluff.

💥 If you want your leads to actually see your emails, book more meetings, and not burn your domain to the ground…
This is the episode you’ve been waiting for.

🎧 Listen now and let's unf*ck your cold outreach—once and for all.

🔹 Available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts 🔹

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