Sam Jacobs

CEO

New York, New York, United States26 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of Pavilion, a leading GTM community.
  • Co-host of the Topline Podcast discussing B2B tech.
  • Author of bestselling book on kindness in business.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and B2B growth strategist with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go-to-market StrategyBusiness DevelopmentCommunity BuildingLeadership Development

Other Skills

StrategySalesOperations ManagementNetworkingPrimary ResearchPrivate EquityMergersStart-upsSales ManagementProduct DevelopmentExecutive ManagementMergers & AcquisitionsInvestmentsLinkedInSocial Networking

About

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.

Experience

Clay

Advisor

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Otter.ai

Advisor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Fyxerai

Advisor

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Topline

Co Host

Feb 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · New York, United States · On-site

  • Co-Host of Topline, the sharpest wittiest podcast on B2B tech, with Asad Zaman (CEO, Sales Talent Agency) and AJ Bruno (CEO, Quotapath). We discuss real-time market trends, analyze the private markets, and answer questions from the Topline community.
  • Sundays - Full Episode
  • Thursdays - Topline Spotlight

Sales hacker, inc.

Host, Sales Hacker Podcast

Apr 2018Apr 2022 · 4 yrs · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Founding host of The Sales Hacker Podcast (now GTM Fund podcast) which featured interviews and discussion with leading sales practitioners from high growth companies around the world.

Behavox

Chief Revenue Officer

Mar 2018Jan 2019 · 10 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Behavox is the People Analytics company, using AI to make companies smarter, more secure and more successful.
  • The company has offices in London, New York and Singapore and employs industry leaders in compliance and regulation, sales and customer success, software and data science.
  • Behavox software reveals previously undetectable insights to protect reputation and maximise revenue generation by analysing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data.
  • The platform delivers benefits across the enterprise:
  • reducing the costs of compliance and increasing the effectiveness of systems and controls;
  • optimising the performance of teams and enhancing levels of customer service;
  • tracking and measuring corporate culture to strengthen teams and companies.
  • The company works with forward thinking, multi-national businesses, financial institutions and investment firms.
  • The ever increasing demand for People Analytics means we are expanding in existing markets, entering new markets and recruiting at all levels.
  • If you want to be part of the Behavox journey please contact us.

Themuse.com

Chief Revenue Officer

Mar 2017Oct 2017 · 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Chief Revenue Officer of The Muse, the most beloved and trusted career website in the United States and the leading employer branding platform helping companies attract, recruit, and retain top talent. Hired to lead Sales, Success, Account Management, and Sales Development and reaccelerate growth.
  • Experience & Responsibilities:
  • Led Sales, Sales Development, and Account Management
  • Repackaged product, redeveloped pricing, and rebuilt go-to-market strategy with emphasis on Enterprise growth
  • Built Enterprise business from standing start resulting in number of early six-figure wins with F100 ($360K, $150K, $150K, $90K, and more)
  • Increases overall sales efficiency ~2x in 5 months
  • Increased average deal size ~45% in 4 months

Pavilion

Founder & CEO

Jun 2016Present · 9 yrs 10 mos · New York, NY

  • Pavilion is the leading global community for high-performance go-to-market executives. We build elite, modern GTM operators—CROs, CMOs, CCOs, and Revenue Operations leaders—who power growth at companies like Salesforce, Hubspot, Stripe, Oracle, Snowflake, Clay, Klaviyo, Xero, Upside, Owner.com, Otter.ai, and Square. With over 10,000 Members worldwide, Pavilion is a paid membership platform for GTM leaders at every level, offering tactical support, advanced education (from financial fluency to AI-powered GTM strategy), career acceleration, and a world-class peer network. We help ambitious professionals unlock their full potential and grow into the next version of themselves—faster, smarter, and surrounded by community.
  • For more information about Pavilion or to become a member of one of our worldwide chapters, visit joinpavilion.com.
Business DevelopmentStrategySalesOperations ManagementGo-to-market StrategyNetworking

Livestream

SVP Sales & Marketing, Platform

Jun 2015Feb 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Brooklyn, New York

  • SVP, Sales & Marketing for LiveStream's Platform Products business, overseeing all sales, marketing, and success functions for LiveStream's 10,000+ subscription customers.
  • Acquired by Vimeo/IAC.
  • Led Sales, Sales Development, Account Management, and Marketing functions
  • Ran a portfolio of Livestream’s businesses including SaaS, Production & Professional Services, and Advertising
  • Hired and built overall B2B go-to-market function including SMB and Mid-Market Sales, Demand Generation, Content Marketing, Marketing Operations, and Sales Development
  • Helped company grow from ~$20M+ to ~$40M+ in run-rate revenue over 2 years

Axial

SVP Sales & Business Development

Nov 2010May 2015 · 4 yrs 6 mos · New York, NY

  • SVP of Sales & Business Development at Axial, an online platform helping private companies connect with potential advisors, investors, lenders, and acquirers.
  • Experience & Responsibilities:
  • Led all Sales, Customer Success, and Business Development & Partnerships activities for the company
  • Built, grew, and led top-performing lead generation and sales development team, new business and account executive team, customer success team, and business development function
  • Developed comprehensive Go-To-Market strategy while delivering 100%+ top-line revenue growth for 3 consecutive years
  • Responsible for customer success organization including customer renewals, retention, upsells, and churn management activities
  • Built commercial organization from 0 to 50+ including recruiting, hiring, firing, training, and professional development encompassing all sales and customer-success related activities
  • Supported CEO and helped lead organization through Series A ($6M led by Redpoint Ventures) and Series B ($11M led by Comcast Ventures) financing rounds
  • Established and oversaw revenue-generating partnerships with major organizations in Axial target markets including: ACG, Entrepreneurs Organization, Merrill DataSite, SBIA, and Vistage.

Tidbits, llc

Board Member

Jul 2010Present · 15 yrs 9 mos

Gerson lehrman group (silver lake $200m investment in 2007)

Managing Director

Feb 2003Jul 2010 · 7 yrs 5 mos

  • Helped company scale from ~$30M to ~$300M in revenue over 7.5 years
  • Oversaw global success organization during period of hyper-growth culminating in $200M Silver Lake Partners investment in 2007
  • Designed Go-To-Market strategy for Consumer Goods & Services unit and scaled from 0 to $50M+ in revenue in 3 years
  • Global head of Research Management & Customer Success overseeing team of 200 client service professionals in Asia, Europe, and North America
  • Hired, fired, trained and scaled global teams from 0 to 200+
  • Executed global business development partnerships driving revenue growth and customer retention

Capital one

Associate

Feb 2002Feb 2003 · 1 yr

  • Providing financial analytical support and internal consulting to the Global Finance division of Capital One Financial Corporation (Ticker: COF)

The annex group

Founder & CEO

Jul 2000Apr 2004 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • An independent record label, music production and artist services organization featuring music from independent artists including Lipstik, The Flying Change, Utris, Infectious Organisms, The Interpreters, Paul Brill, and many others.
  • If you've made it this far down the page, I encourage you to open up Spotify and search for a few of these good people. They will appreciate the $0.003 they earn with every listen :)

Stern stewart

Analyst

Jan 1999Jan 2000 · 1 yr

Education

University of Virginia

BS

Aug 1995May 1999

Langley High School

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