Kieran Flanagan, SVP Agentic GTM & Systems, Former(CMO, SVP) | All things AI | Sequoia Scout | Advisor

SVP Agentic GTM & Systems, Former(CMO, SVP) | All things AI | Sequoia Scout | Advisor

  • HubSpot
  • GTM / Go-to-Market
  • Ireland
Rank
#180of 18,993
  • 111.3K followers
  • 20 posts / 60d
  • 0.2% avg engagement
  • 2.0K follower growth / 30d

Kieran Flanagan ranks #180 of 18,993 creators on the LinkedIn Ranking, working in GTM / Go-to-Market and based in Ireland. They have 111.3K followers and published 20 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.2% average engagement rate.

The roast

Kieran lists his job as SVP of Agentic GTM, which is a very complicated way of saying he’s a professional middle-manager waiting for a chatbot to figure out how to write his LinkedIn posts for him. He claims he creates content for the top 5 percent, yet his engagement rate suggests he’s mostly writing for the 95 percent who accidentally clicked "see more" while scrolling for actual work.

About Kieran

CMO, SVP of Marketing at brands like Zapier and HubSpot. Angel investor, Sequoia Scout and Advisor to many great companies (Miro, Ramp, Chainlink and more). The number one marketing podcast - Marketing Against the Grain (You Should Tune In) I create content for the 5%, the marketers who want to be in the top five percentile. Follow me on LinkedIn and subscribe to my newsletter (KieranFlanagan.io/newsletter). Conference Speaker, but limited because it's tiring!

Highlights

  • Top 1% Audience

    : 111,316 followers

  • Top 1% in Ireland

    : Ranked #1 of 131 creators

  • Top 5% Impact

    : 269 avg engagements per post

  • Top 5% in GTM / Go-to-Market

    : Ranked #4 of 106 creators

Recent posts

  • Distribution is the only moat left. Also, the state of distribution right now … - Spamming outbound until you get blacklisted - Community marketing across Reddit and other sites until you get banned - SEO clicks disappearing into the AI void - Results from getting listed in AI engines are untrackable. - Get ignored across social media because everyone wants to gorge on memes made by AI - Creators keep raising their prices because brands are desperate for growth. Distribution is a moat if you have some unfair advantage: network effects, an existing customer base, or a one-of-one f

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  • I've been talking to a bunch of marketing leaders, and they’re all investing heavily in YouTube. Most of them shouldn't make this investment. Kipp and I just hit 100k subs for Marketing Against the Grain. It’s been quite the journey to get our first YouTube plaque. There’s a quote that perfectly summarises that journey from Naval: “When you look back, you’ll wish you’d just done the long-term version of everything.” This is the hardest thing about marketing. Committing to the long-term. CEO is breathing down your neck; CFOs are looking for a return on everything. You default to the quick

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  • Instinct went from launching its invite-only AI agent to a 10B valuation in less than 2 months with $0 on marketing. It's running an 'agent-led growth' loop. Instinct is growing fast. 10% a day, $0 on marketing and already approaching $1B a year in transactions. The agent is its own best marketing and sales team. 1. Acquisition → the agent experience is the marketing. Today, what drives growth for AI companies is ‘the magic moment’. Instinct launched to roughly 200 friends and family. Each user received a handful of invites. It’s now growing 10% every day. Why? Because the agent is perfo

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Last updated 2026-08-01