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Reported, numbers-first breakdowns of how modern revenue teams actually get built — and where the old motions are breaking.
CMOs who started in 2022 have a median tenure of 2.6 years, Findem finds, down from four for the 2010 class. Only about 2% of S&P 500 companies report a tracked AI metric, per a16z.
Baseten hired ex-Figma CMO Sheila Vashee, finishing a GTM leadership team on the way to $26 billion. The AI-infra CMO reference just moved from Splunk-shaped to Figma-shaped.
Infosys plans to move up to a third of its 320,000 people into specialist roles. The WFA says labor-based agency pay has dropped from 54% of contracts in 2011 to 19%.
AMD paid $8.2B for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs. Meta hired MongoDB's CJ Desai for its new Enterprise Platform. Both moves say the same thing: shipping enterprise AI now runs through the org chart.
GitLab cut 350 in June, then reported revenue up 21% to $286.3M. On September 28, Meta hired MongoDB CEO CJ Desai and Nvidia added a record $150B to its buyback.
McKinsey is cutting up to 4,000 non-client roles over two years. Lightning AI named a former Heroku marketing chief as CMO, and Zscaler promoted its head of worldwide sales to CRO.
Consensus named Sean Murray, who scaled Greenhouse from $40M to $200M+ ARR, its CRO. The same day OneTrust hired Stephanie Glenn, who ran $2B ARR across Salesforce's Marketing Cloud and Commerce Cloud.
