Sangram Vajre's Recent LinkedIn Posts

my 15-year-old just closed a $300 deal + $50/month retainer. here's how it happened. i told him early on: we'll pay for tennis shoes, rackets, training. but food with friends? you gotta earn that. when he was younger, we paid him for reading books. never for chores. chores are just part of being in a family. now…

in 2014, i asked my wife if i could quit Salesforce and start a company. we had debt, no savings, and a second kid on the way. she didn't say no. but she didn't say yes either. after a week of back and forth, she said 3 things that changed my life: 1. "i don't want you to have any regrets—or me stopping you."…

i asked 1,500 people at a conference: "how many of you are using AI?" every hand went up. "how many are using AI to be more productive?" every hand stayed up. "how many of you are actually more productive?" the whole room laughed. that's the irony of 2026. we have more tools than ever. more automations than…

hot take: traditional marketing and CMO role will report into sales by 2030. but bcos no one in marketing like to report into sales, the sales function will become GTM function. hence the rise of GTM fractionals (traditional CMO/CRO/Ops roles) and Chief GTM Officer role reporting directly to the CEO. pls comment…

hot take: we are about to see rise of forward deployment operators (FDO) for the last few decades, if you wanted to scale from $10M to $100M, the formula was relatively simple: 1. raise money 2. hire executives who've done it before, give them equity, and 3. let them run you couldn't afford a $400K CMO? no proble…

just finished my 7th CEO roundtable and had a light bulb moment. every single CEO is talking about AI. but almost all of them are focused on the same thing: → cut headcount → automate tasks → reduce spend and then they wonder why nothing feels different. i wonder if we're looking at AI all wrong. AI isn't mean…