Outbound

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Isenberg: Effective outbound sales depends on timing, not contact spreadsheets
“Bad outbound usually starts with a spreadsheet full of names, but good outbound starts with timing.”
Greg Isenberg Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 21:35 Marketing Engineer: The $1M Job with AI Agents
20VC Insight
Carles Reyna: Outbound sales is dead unless executed humanly
“Outbound is dead unless you do it with humans or unless you do it humanly.”
Carles Reina Apr 11, 2026 ▶ 4:15 ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Kahlow: Outbound AI SDR sales outreach is a race to the bottom
“Most people with AISDRs are doing it for outbound. And for me, outbound is a race to the bottom.”
Amanda Kahlow Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 27:33 She got rejected by 22 VCs—then built 6sense to $100M+ in revenue. Now she's back for AI. | Amand... · PMF Show
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Outbound sales drives the majority of Rippling's revenue attribution
“We're going to focus more specifically on outbound, which makes up the majority of Rippling's revenue from an attribution standpoint.”
Sam Blond Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 2:43 The Revenue Playbook: Rippling’s Top 3 Growth Tactics at Scale with Rippling CRO Matt Plank
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Kellogg: Outbound sales worked significantly better four years ago than today
“I think Outbound actually worked better four years ago than it does today, because I think everyone's doing it, and people are getting flooded with it, and they don't like getting called on their cell phone, they're not answering their regular phone, and you c…”
Dave Kellogg Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 49:35 Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
IN DEPTH Insight
Amin: Outbound is a better starting point than inbound for software
“We quickly realized that everybody needs outbound and not everybody needs inbound. So actually outbound is a better and faster starting point.”
Kareem Amin Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 18:10 A product-market-fit masterclass | Kareem Amin (Clay)
SAASTR Insight
Colin Zima: Customer-driven outbound outperforms internal outbound sales
“Your customers can tell stories better than you can like customer driven outbound is better than your internal outbound if you can do it.”
Colin Zima May 9, 2023 ▶ 42:40 SaaStr CRO Confidential: Sam Blond + Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network
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Lemkin: 80% to 90% of SaaS companies now do outbound sales
“Everyone, I would say five years ago, maybe half of SaaS companies did outbound. I would say today it's like about 80 to 90%, as near as I can tell.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 24, 2022 ▶ 26:24 16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin | SaaStr Software Community
SAASTR Insight
Lemkin: Great outbound sales works better than ever while mediocre outbound declines
“Great outbound works better than ever, but mediocre outbound is still works, but it's declining in its efficacy.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 30, 2021 ▶ 51:50 Scaling a Successful SaaS Sales Team w/ 20VC Founder Harry Stebbings and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
Forzley: SMB payments rely on inbound acquisition, unlike outbound enterprise sales
“The traditional model you were mentioning is more outbound or oriented. That's better for enterprise customers for this market. The type of customers come in are more inbound oriented.”
Marwan Forzley Oct 19, 2021 ▶ 23:35 Will Veem's 300,000 SMB Customers Process Over $5b in 2021? 3 Products Driving Growth.

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