Graham Moreno

Head of GTM, Parallel Web Systems · 1 appearance on the record.

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Graham Moreno is an enterprise sales leader known for scaling go-to-market organizations at AI startups, including serving as President at Windsurf (formerly Codeium). Earlier in his career, he built and scaled enterprise sales teams at Grafana Labs and MongoDB.

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Moreno: Delaying RevOps until $50M in ARR creates massive technical debt

“Generally, my experience has been when it's frustrating, it's because at around 50 to a hundred million in revenue, someone's like, oh, maybe we should use data to make decisions. And then it's like a multi-year process of unwinding a bunch of stuff that happe…”

Graham Moreno Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 31:53 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

Insight

Moreno: Sales leaders must text-recruit four to six reps within four weeks

“Like for any, I'd say for any founder listening to this, like you hire a sales leader that doesn't have four to six people that can basically text and get into the seat and like, Four to six weeks, probably even sooner, let's say four weeks, then like maybe no…”

Graham Moreno Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 18:16 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

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Codeium plugin generates 45% of code for developers across 70+ languages

“Our first product, which is basically a plugin that works across any IDE, 70 plus languages on average generates 45% of the code written by the developers using it.”

Graham Moreno Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 3:09 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

Disclosure

Codeium is transitioning to a partner-first revenue model

“One of the things that we're doing going into next year, based on all the data that we've seen this year, is moving to a partner first model for revenue.”

Graham Moreno Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 13:23 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

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Moreno: Over 90% of Codeium's 70+ GTM hires were directly sourced internally

“90% plus of that seven to 73 people that we've brought in since I got here have been sourced by, recruited by us.”

Graham Moreno Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 18:54 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

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Moreno: A Codeium sales rep will earn over $1M in W-2 compensation

“Of those 10, Seven are already over their annual number with, like, two weeks to go in the corridor. So seven of the 10 are over their annual number. One, having only been here for 10 months this year, will, like, make into the seven figures. We have another c…”

Graham Moreno Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 23:44 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

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Moreno: Codeium founders generated millions in ARR before hiring salespeople

“Our founders did a couple million dollars with founder led sales before hiring anyone.”

Graham Moreno Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 6:13 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

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Moreno: Codeium's first sales hire closed $1.6M in just four months

“The first person who joined after me started in March. They did a full annual number. They closed 1.6 million dollars in four months and became a leader.”

Graham Moreno Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 24:11 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

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Codeium reached a $1B valuation while scaling from 30 to 150 employees

“Codium, most recently valued at over a billion dollars. When Graham joined around this time last year, the company was 30 employees. Fast forward to today, we're at a 150.”

Sam Blond Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 1:55 How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
How Windsurf Built A Billion-Dollar AI Leader and a Winning Sales Machine	Mar 5, 2025	17m

Graham Moreno

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