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”

  • Pavilion Gold
  • Non-profit Organization Management
  • United States
Rank
#162of 18,993
  • 124.9K followers
  • 45 posts / 60d
  • 0.1% avg engagement
  • 1.5K follower growth / 30d

Sam Jacobs ranks #162 of 18,993 creators on the LinkedIn Ranking, working in Non-profit Organization Management and based in United States. They have 124.9K followers and published 45 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.1% average engagement rate.

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

  • Top 1% in Non-profit Organization Management

    : Ranked #1 of 266 creators

  • Top 1% Audience

    : 124,931 followers

  • Top 1% Creator

    : 45 posts in 30 days

  • Top 5% in United States

    : Ranked #60 of 5851 creators

Recent posts

  • In the past few months, I've had dozens of conversations with GTM leaders. If there was one word to describe their consensus perspective: exhaustion. Doesn't mean they're not successful. Lots of them are. Lots of them are at unicorns and fast growing AI-native companies. Others are at legacy SaaS vendors trying to find an AI growth story they can tell investors. But nobody is working less. That's for sure. AI hasn't created free time and it hasn't created space to think. It's more intense, more frantic, more urgent than ever. We're in the "foothills of the singularity" and everyone

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  • At least they have a sense of humor.

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  • 3 weeks on the road and through the sky. Landing today in New York for a full week of “Experience Pavilion”. Our 10 year anniversary. Sold-out Women’s Summit. Live Topline with Manny Medina and Michael Walrath Pavilion Gold day with 40 incredible operators and an Only in Pavilion Gold dinner Tuesday night. GTM with over 1,400 attendees on Wednesday and Thursday. Cold plunges. Early morning runs. Harry Styles getting his steps in on the Brooklyn Bridge. Torrential rain. An incredible Pavilion Team where we get to introduce our new COO to the world. Back in the city that never sleeps

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Last updated 2026-08-01