Mark Kilens

Everything Mark Kilens said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Kilens: CEOs own GTM strategy while marketing leaders execute it

“Ultimately, the CEO decides go to market strategy. That's my opinion. I think the CEO owns that. You're acting as the CEO's right-hand person to make it come to life.”

Mark Kilens Oct 3, 2023 ▶ 10:24 9 Lessons from Building Marketing Teams at HubSpot, Drift, and Airmeet

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Kilens: Companies wait too long to adopt V2MOM goal frameworks

“This is how you create high performance. I see too many companies do this too late.”

Mark Kilens Oct 3, 2023 ▶ 13:46 9 Lessons from Building Marketing Teams at HubSpot, Drift, and Airmeet

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Kilens gives culture carriers quarterly budgets to drive bottom-up team events

“And what we've done at AirMeets, at HubSpot, at Drift, is we've gotten people together on the team who want to be the, kind of, the life of the party of the team. So these people are empowered. I give them budget. I give them X amount of money per quarter. The…”

Mark Kilens Oct 3, 2023 ▶ 6:22 9 Lessons from Building Marketing Teams at HubSpot, Drift, and Airmeet

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HubSpot and Drift adopted MSPOT goal frameworks at $50M and $40M

“We did this, you know, probably when we were like, fifty million at HubSpot. We did this kind of when we were at forty million at Drift. We're doing this now at AirMeet even sooner, right?”

Mark Kilens Oct 3, 2023 ▶ 13:51 9 Lessons from Building Marketing Teams at HubSpot, Drift, and Airmeet

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Mark's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

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