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🦙 The Play No One Uses

Brian LaManna

June 8, 2025

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AI-naive GTM with Elena Verna
This Thursday, growth legend Elena Verna (Growth @ Lovable) joins Kevin White (GTM @ Common Room) LIVE in conversation on the topic of AI-native GTM.

🙋 RSVP → https://lu.ma/cda4ymy4
📅 Save the date: Thursday, June 12 @ 10 am PT / 1pm ET

Here’s what’s on tap for the convo:
✅ Differences between trad PLG and AI-native growth
✅ Growth frameworks that apply to AI-native products
✅ How to identify a high-intent user from a hobbyist
✅ When and how to go about layering in a sales motion
✅ Metrics, growth experiments, pricing models, and more

It all happens live—Thursday, June 12 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET.
Save your spot for → AI-native GTM with Elena Verna

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A Deal Play, No Other Seller is Using

I’ve started sending this over in every deal cycle.

Confident no one else is running this play.

I asked a top performing AE (Kaylee Ben-Ami), to make a short testimonial video.

She talks about how she uses Gong, the outcomes it’s drove for her, and most importantly…

Why she’d never consider working for a company that did not have Gong.

VIDEO

Especially when it’s led her to become a President’s Club AE.

I embed the video in a digital sales room and share it a few calls into the cycle.

The more stakeholders that view it, the better.

My recommendation:

  • Tap one of your happiest customers you worked with to make a short 60-90 second video.
  • Ask them to share their buying experience with you in the cycle as well as the specific business outcomes they saw after purchasing
  • Embed it into a deal room or Google Drive and use it as a value touch mid-cycle

Real, genuine stories sell.


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