🚨🚨🚨 BIG changes to how we GTM Koala!!! 🚨🚨🚨 We're excited to announce that the one and only Matt Groetelaars has joined Koala. Matt is one of the most talented GTM operators I've had the privilege of working of with - he helped rearchitect the Pipe Gen Program alongside Joe Morrissey that helped to reaccelerate Segment's growth rate from ~50% y/y to high-70% y/y just before we were acquired (revenue acceleration is no small feat at $xxxM ARR!). Since Segment, he's been consulting for several years, helping lots of growth stage companies with their PG Programs. Now we plan to have him spread Pipeline Magic upon all Koala customers! He'll also be moonlighting as a PM as we build the world's greatest end-to-end pipeline generation engine. Matt, welcome to Koala - we're so excited and lucky to have you! PS I plan to always close candidates over ice cream!! (Higher win rate and more ice cream for me.)
Congrats Matt Groetelaars! -- Tido Carriero is getting all the good ones
Dream team!!
I think you closed me over 3 breakfasts back at Segment. But then Matthew Shwery and I closed you over just one dinner. Or maybe you closed us over dinner? I can’t really tell
What a get!!
Congrats Matt Groetelaars and Tido Carriero ! Can’t wait to see what you all can accomplish!!
Ice cream is the way to go!
Absolute all star hire. Koala keeps winning!
So excited to be here and build something great together! P.S. the Ice Cream was pre-inception of the recruiting process, but hindsight 20-20, it was a very strong start!
Let’s go.
🦾 CMO @ Deepgram, Investor, Advisor 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 // Ex- Scale AI, HashiCorp, ServiceTitan
2wHOLY SMOKES!!!! The already insanely stacked team somehow got even more stacked! 🤠 Congrats Matt Groetelaars and welcome! Also, any time you and Tido want to go for ice cream I'm game. Ice cream is (one of) my love languages 🤣