Where it starts
Selling event sponsorships face to face for an NGO. I found companies by walking through co-working spaces, dug up decision makers on LinkedIn and scheduled every follow-up in Gmail, one by one.
6+ years of sales, from cold-calling to code. I find new markets, work out how to reach them, and build the systems that keep it running.

Selling event sponsorships face to face for an NGO. I found companies by walking through co-working spaces, dug up decision makers on LinkedIn and scheduled every follow-up in Gmail, one by one.
Booking meetings for 5+ IT companies over two years. Sales Navigator lists, LinkedIn automation, email sequences, cold calls. All of it by hand.
BDR at Progress Software, a publicly traded US software company. Alongside it I finished the Clay course and started building my first GTM engineering systems.
In-house GTM engineer at an outbound agency: lists, copy, offers and HubSpot for the agency's own pipeline, at about one new client a month. From November I ran client campaigns too, including $1.4M ARR for US psychiatric clinics and £180k of pipeline for event venues.
Strategy and RevOps as one job. HubSpot and Clay talking to each other, CRMs built and cleaned, whole markets mapped for sports clubs and manufacturers. Find the market, test it, build what runs it. That's GTM engineering.
Copy can't fix the wrong audience. Most of the work happens before the first email.
Registries, federations and directories are complete, current, and almost nobody else is using them.
Whoever finds the market should build the machine that reaches it. That is where the leverage is.