Bloom Growth
Bloom Growth is a B2B SaaS growth agency founded by someone with experience at Andreessen Horowitz and roles at companies like Planet Labs and Zora. The founder presents a contrarian thesis that SDRs should be treated as brand marketers and integrated with demand-gen efforts to reduce CAC by 20-40% and increase pipeline velocity. They offer free marketing strategy workshops and operate the Pipeline Superheroes Podcast.
To combine outbound sales development and demand-gen marketing into a unified approach that breaks down silos between sales and marketing teams.
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