Sam Jacobs — CEO @ Pavilion | Co-Host of Topline Podcast | WSJ Best Selling Author of “Kind Folks Finish First”
CEO @ Pavilion | Co-Host of Topline Podcast | WSJ Best Selling Author of “Kind Folks Finish First”
Sam Jacobs ranks #501 of 14,983 LinkedIn creators in Think Tanks, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 123.5K followers and published 21 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.1% average engagement rate.
- 123.5K followers
- 21 posts / 30d
- 0.1% avg engagement
- — follower growth / 30d
The roast
Sam Jacobs built a community to teach elite revenue operations, yet his 123,000 followers are currently witnessing a masterclass in how to pay for a club that even the algorithm refuses to attend. He claims "Kind Folks Finish First," which explains why he's still finishing behind 500 other people.
About Sam
I build elite, modern GTM operators - CROs, CMOs, CCOs, and Revenue Operations leaders - who drive growth at the world’s fastest-growing B2B companies, including Salesforce, Hubspot, Stripe, Oracle, Snowflake, Clay, Klaviyo, Xero, Upside, Owner.com, Otter.ai, and Square That’s the mission behind Pavilion, the leading global community of over 10,000 high-performance go-to-market executives. We exist to help ambitious professionals unlock and realize their full potential—not just as employees, but as leaders, thinkers, and builders. Pavilion is a paid membership for GTM leaders at every level. We provide tactical support, advanced education - incorporating financial literacy, advanced AI-powered GTM motions, and modern leadership tools - career acceleration, and a powerful peer network to help Members perform better in their roles and grow into the next. We operate in every major global hub and represent a new way of thinking about career development—community-powered, principle-led, and relentlessly practical. This all started with a belief: that greatness exists within all of us. Sometimes it just needs the right mechanism to bring it forth. To learn more, visit: www.joinpavilion.com I also co-host the Topline Podcast with AJ Bruno and Asad Zaman. And I wrote a bestselling book, Kind Folks Finish First, about building with kindness at the center.
Highlights
- Big Audience — 123,470 followers · top 1%
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #190 of 5205 creators
- Consistent Creator — 21 posts in 30d · top 5%
- High Impact — 146 avg engagements per post · top 25%
Recent posts
CAC is up. Outbound is noisier. Everyone's struggling to generate pipeline. Here's the #1 channel I keep hearing about from CMOs and CROs: in-person events. At Pavilion, our events business is soaring. Our GTM conference is up 70% YoY. We've hosted 2x the Operator Dinners (15-person moderated salon dinners with GTM operators, founders, and investors) vs last year. Here are 5 lessons based on our vision of putting "the right people in the right rooms to have the right conversations." Steal these ideas to improve your events. 𝟭. 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 Curating the room is essential. The g
84 reactions · 23 comments · 0 reposts
Do you really want Con Edison to make your dishwasher? I don't. Every few weeks, one of the foundation labs releases a new feature seemingly intended to replace entire categories. Bookkeeping. Legal work. Design. The argument: If one model can do everything, why wouldn't it eventually own every category of enterprise software? History suggests the opposite. Foundational technologies amplify specialization. They never erase it. Electricity created appliance manufacturers. The internet created new forms of retail. Cloud infrastructure produced thousands of SaaS businesses. AI is followi
21 reactions · 6 comments · 0 reposts
Everyone's telling CROs to move fast on AI. After 20+ years building companies, I've seen what separates the ones who thrive from the ones who flame out. 𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗖𝗥𝗢: 1. Can't defend their forecast in the boardroom 2. Lets Sales, Marketing, and CS run on different definitions and data 3. Inherits an uneven leadership team and stays stuck in firefighting mode 4. Scales too early on the wrong assumptions 5. Treats AI rollout like a tech project instead of a change management problem 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗖𝗥𝗢: 1. Builds forecasting models that integrate qualitative and quantitative rigor 2. Aligns S
24 reactions · 4 comments · 0 reposts