# Asad Zaman
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asad zaman (born 1953) is a Pakistani professor, economist and social scientist. He is currently serving on the Economic Advisory Committee of Prime Minister of Pakistan and as a member of Monetary Policy Committee of State Bank of Pakistan. Previously he has served vice chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.
The Unwritten Rules of CRO Survival | Rick Smolen, CRO @ ShipHero
The Unwritten Rules of CRO Survival | Rick Smolen, CRO @ ShipHero
Rick Smolen, CRO of ShipHero and sales advisor to Riverwood Capital's portfolio of more than 2 dozen enterprise software companies, joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman to argue that AI is leverage rather than a shortcut. Topi…
How To Make Your ARR 20% More Valuable To Investors | Keenan, CEO @ A Sales Growth Company
Keenan, founder and CEO of A Sales Growth Company and the bestselling author of Gap Selling, joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman to make the case that two companies with identical revenue can be valued 3 to 4 times apart, depending entirely on how that revenue got made. Topics include the fo…
Forget Growth. Your Valuation Depends On Your AI Story | Tomasz Tunguz, GP @ Theory Ventures
Forget Growth. Your Valuation Depends On Your AI Story | Tomasz Tunguz, GP @ Theory Ventures
Tomasz Tunguz, General Partner at Theory Ventures, joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman with public software multiples sitting at 4 to 4.5 times forward revenue, down from the 100x ceiling of 2021. T…
RevOps for Hypergrowth (Fireworks AI, Perplexity, Exa & More) | CEO @ Go Nimbly, Jen Igartua
Jen Igartua, CEO at Go Nimbly, joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman. Her client roster is wild: Fireworks AI, Perplexity, Exa, and Wispr Flow, plus some of the biggest names in SaaS. Topics in today's episode include how the fastest-growing AI-native companies are growing in spite of their re…
CRM As A Business World Model: The Future For GTM Teams? | Keith Peiris, CEO @ Lightfield
Keith Peiris, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightfield, joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman to talk about building an agentic CRM that launched in November 2025, has been adopted by more than 5,000 customers, and just raised a $47 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Topics include why every…
If the AI Money Dries Up, Which Companies Burn?
Harvey's gross margin fell from roughly positive 50% at the start of 2026 to negative 50% by June, so every $1 of revenue cost $1.50 to deliver. Sam Jacobs, CEO of Pavilion, AJ Bruno, CEO of QuotaPath, and Asad Zaman, CEO of STA, go hosts-only on when AI growth justifies margins like that, why open…
Turning AI Tokens Into ROI (That You Can Measure) | CEO @ Paid, Manny Medina
Manny Medina, Co-Founder and CEO of Paid, the monetization platform for AI agents, and the founder who took Outreach from nothing, joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman in person on how to price AI agents once seats stop making sense. Topics include why every SaaS company needs its own agents …
SPOTLIGHT: How CEO Sam Jacobs Is Redefining Pavilion's Identity | Sam Jacobs, Founder & CEO @ Pavilion
When Sam Jacobs founded Pavilion, formerly Revenue Collective, he set out to build a private community for operators in a startup world that traditionally celebrated founders and overlooked the people running the business. But as Pavilion grew to 10,000+ members, the very thing that made the commun…
AI Revenue Is Real. But Will It Last? | Amy Konary, Founder & Chair, Subscribed Institute @ Zuora
Amy Konary, Founder & Chair of The Subscribed Institute at Zuora, coined the term SaaS as an IDC analyst around 2000, when her first forecast sized the whole market at $40 million. She joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman for the first in-person Topline to ask whether AI company economics are…
$682M Public CEO: "The Magic of 80% Gross Margin" | CEO @ Yext, Michael Walrath
Michael Walrath, CEO of Yext, is back on Topline to explain how Yext went from breakeven to 31% EBITDA margins on an 80% gross margin business, after halving its headcount and using its balance sheet to buy back roughly 35% of every share it ever issued. He joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zama…
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