Lovable's Ryan Meadows on the New GTM Playbook

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Ryan Meadows discusses the innovative changes in Lovable's revenue organization and the shift away from traditional sales practices.

Ryan Meadows joins Wade Foster and Dan Slagen on Agents of Scale to talk about how his revenue org is being rebuilt from the ground up: no traditional BDR team, AI-assisted outbound, customer feedback shipped in minutes, and creativity as the new hiring signal. Ryan's point: when your product lets almost anyone build software, you can't run the old playbook. You have to throw away 70-80% of it. AI handles account ID and outreach. Humans handle quality, creativity, deployment, and change management. And pace becomes the only operating metric that matters. In this episode: - Why Lovable hasn't hired a traditional BDR team - The AI BDR workflow: human-in-loop → approval rate → autonomous - The 80% admin problem that turned Ryan into a Lovable customer - Hiring for creativity over function - Feedback to shipped feature in minutes - Enterprise adoption: governance, permissions, and the "co-founder" framing - Why executives moving into AI companies need to drop the old playbook - "Everything is pace" as the operating question Subscribe for more conversations with the operators and builders turning AI from experiment into infrastructure.

People in this episode

Hosts: Wade Foster, Dan Slagen

Guest: Ryan Meadows

Topics covered

• go-to-market strategy
• AI in business
• revenue organization
• hiring practices
• customer feedback
• software development
• operating metrics

Keywords

• GTM playbook
• AI-assisted outbound
• BDR team
• customer feedback
• creativity in hiring
• enterprise adoption
• operating metrics

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Organizations: Lovable, AI

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