LinkedIn Content Strategy & Writing Style
Founder + Advisor | Fellow @ Harvard Innovation Labs | Founder @ Restack | Operating Partner @ Grix VC | HBS, ex-McK
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Rob Snyder positions himself as a high-stakes architect of startup logic, moving beyond generic playbooks to provide a rigorous conceptual model for growth. His content strategy centers on dismantling "push-based" sales myths, replacing them with a "pull" theory that aligns product-market fit with the specific, unblocked progress of a customer. He is notable for his radical transparency and pedagogical authority, often open-sourcing the exact B2B scripts he teaches at Harvard to bridge the gap between academic theory and raw founder survival. By intersecting deep operational consulting with a "case study factory" framework, Snyder transforms the emotional burden of sales rejection into a diagnostic tool for engineering predictable revenue.
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Today I'm open-sourcing my B2B sales call script. I teach this at Harvard, and some variant of this has brought 40+ startups to $1M+ ARR and beyond. It has also helped established businesses remove a…
"Sales is a lot of rejection" is a common belief that, I think, is wrong. If you experience the feeling of rejection, you're probably thinking about sales backwards. (And you're likely to avoid sales…
My favorite red flags in startups' sales calls: 1- Founder: "That's a lot of helpful context" This is what the founder says when the prospect has provided minutes of irrelevant info, usually because…
Over the past few years, I've spent most of my waking hours making a bunch of startups take off. In doing this, I have watched roughly 5,000 recorded sales calls. The main thing that prevents startups…
A huge source of cofounder conflict: Technical cofounder: “Can’t you just sell what we built?” GTM cofounder: “Can’t you just build what they want?” Both cofounders are wrong, of course. Both have…
"There has been no systematic progress over the past 30 years in making startups more likely to survive." There is no shortage of startup methodologies on offer. When you try to follow one of them, i…
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Posts / Week
2 days
Days Between Posts
1
Total Posts Analyzed
HIGH
Posting Frequency
136.1111111111111%
Avg Engagement Rate
STABLE
Performance Trend
220
Avg Length (Words)
HIGH
Depth Level
ADVANCED
Expertise Level
0.86/10
Uniqueness Score
YES
Question Usage
23.22222222222222%
Response Rate
Writing style breakdown
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Most founders treat their product demo like a museum tour. "And over here, we have the analytics dashboard. And if you look to your left, you'll see our integrations."
This is a disaster. It is the fastest way to make a buyer's eyes glaze over.
The reason we do this is simple: We are proud of what we built. We want them to see the "value."
But here is the thing about value: Value is not a list of features. Value is the gap between what they are trying to do and what they can currently do.
When you spend 15 minutes showing features, you are "pushing." You are trying to convince them that your product is impressive.
1 - Only show the 20% of the product that solves the specific block they mentioned in discovery.
2 - Stop after every screen and ask: "How does that compare to how you're doing it today?"
3 - If they don't have a specific thing they are trying to accomplish right now... STOP THE DEMO.
The goal of a sales call is not to show your product. The goal is to understand if they have a problem worth solving.
If you embrace this, your win rate will go up, and your calendar will stop being full of "great conversations" that never turn into revenue.
I'm hosting a deep dive on "Pull-Based Demos" this Thursday. Comment "DEMO" if you want the invite!
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