The Thread Podcast
The Thread Podcast explores the future of enterprise sales in the era of AI.
Hosted by Justin Vandehey, founder of Thread, we bring together top sales leaders, enablement pros, and innovators shaping how go-to-market teams grow and win.
Each episode dives deep into what’s changing in sales—from real-time AI coaching to modern revenue systems of action—and features actionable insights from CROs, RevOps leaders, startup founders, and the technologists building the next generation of tools. Whether you’re scaling founder-led sales or leading a global GTM team, you’ll walk away with new strategies to improve seller performance, accelerate deal cycles, and leverage AI for growth.
If you’re ready to think differently about sales execution and the future of GTM, follow The Thread and join the conversation.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 137
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Money Morning Quarterback: Incredible Health's $80M Series B
On the aSaaSins 'Money Morning Quarterback' segment, our host Justin Vandehey breaks down the companies that raised their Seed, Series A, or Series B round of funding the prior week.
This week, Justin…
How Daniel James, CEO and co founder of Zen, is improving employees' physical posture with intelligent security posture
Daniel James, CEO of Zen, joins the aSaaSins podcast to discuss:
- How Daniel's experience transitioning from being a Division 1 collegiate athlete to a working professional led to the opportunity aro…
Money Morning Quarterback: Boulevard's $70M Series C and Ben's $16M Series A
On the aSaaSins 'Money Morning Quarterback' segment, our hosts Justin Vandehey and special guest host Chris Yeh break down the companies that raised their Seed, Series A, or Series B round of funding…
The manager that saved my career, BJ Schaknowski, CEO of symplr
BJ Schaknowski, CEO of symplr joins the aSaaSins pod to talk about:
- How BJ helped me "flip the switch" from being a disengaged poor performer to becoming a top performer at Intuit.
- BJ's guidance on…
Money Morning Quarterback: Arena's $32M Series A
On the aSaaSins 'Money Morning Quarterback' segment, our host Justin Vandehey breaks down the companies that raised their Seed, Series A, or Series B round of funding the prior week.
This week, Justin…
Raising strategic capital and M&A with Ram Jambunathan, GM and SVP of SAP.io (SAPs strategic investment and incubation arm)
Ram Jambunathan, SVP and GM of SAP.io (SAP's strategic investment and incubation arm) joins the aSaaSins Podcast to discuss:
- Ram's experience as a founder, advisor and investor, and how those experi…
Money Morning Quarterback: Sage's $9M Seed Round
On the aSaaSins 'Money Morning Quarterback' segment, our host Justin Vandehey breaks down the companies that raised their Seed, Series A, or Series B round of funding the prior week.
This week, Justin…
Going after huge markets and large incumbents with Jay Srinivasan, CEO Spoke
Jay Srinivasan, CEO of Spoke, joins the aSaaSins podcast to talk about.
- Going after large incumbents like ServiceNow, SAP, and Salesforce, and how he landed on the problem space for Spoke.
- The diff…
Getting above the noise and captivating audiences with Ben Parr, President of Octane AI
Summary:
- Ben shares how Octane thought about early traction channels and platform partners when launching their business. Specifically their partnership with Shopify.
- He discusses the process he w…
Money Morning Quarterback: FairPlay's $10M Series A
On the aSaaSins 'Money Morning Quarterback' segment, our host Justin Vandehey breaks down the companies that raised their Seed, Series A, or Series B round of funding the prior week.
This week, Justin…
Building network effects and growing a business in travel during a global lockdown with Cody Candee, CEO of Bounce
Cody Candee, CEO of Bounce joins us to talk about:
- How global travel unlocked his insight to found Bounce, and how he convinced total strangers to hand over and store their things with him for cash…
Early days at Slack and building a company on someone else's platform with Jassim Latif
Jassim Latif, Cofounder of Zipper and formerly Slack's first Platform and BD hire, joins the pod to talk about.
- Reflecting on the early days at Slack.
- Building an early ecosystem and raising capita…
Money Morning Quarterback: Aquabyte
On the aSaaSins 'Money Morning Quarterback' segment, our host Justin Vandehey breaks down the companies that raised their Seed, Series A, or Series B round of funding the prior week.
This week, Justin…
Veronica Belmont on becoming a startup's first hire and building communities from day one.
Veronica Belmont, Product & Evangelism leader at Adobe (and Disco's first hire!) joins the show to share some insight into:
- How we convinced her to join as our first product hire.
- How values, culture…
Money Morning Quarterback: StyleScan's $1M seed round
On the aSaaSins 'Money Morning Quarterback' segment, our host Justin Vandehey breaks down the companies that raised their Seed, Series A, or Series B round of funding the prior week.
This week, Justin…
Closing your first investor check, Schuyler Brown, Cofounder of strongDM
This episode features cofounder of strongDM, Schuyler Brown as he shares his story on how strongDM raised its first round of financing BEFORE building their product. He also talks about turning down…
The best sales and founders pitches with former 500 Startups pitch coach, Andrea Barrica
This episode features legendary 500 Startups pitch coach and founder of sexual wellness company, O.school, Andrea Barrica where we talk about
- The psychology behind the founder's pitch
- How timing an…