Discover"World of DaaS"Clay COO Varun Anand - why cutting-edge GTM teams are moving away from traditional CRMs
Clay COO Varun Anand - why cutting-edge GTM teams are moving away from traditional CRMs

Clay COO Varun Anand - why cutting-edge GTM teams are moving away from traditional CRMs

Update: 2025-10-14
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Varun Anand is the co-founder and Head of Operations at Clay, a GTM platform that helps over 10,000 companies with data enrichment and sales outreach. Clay recently raised a $100M Series C funding at a $3.1B valuation.

In this episode of World of DaaS, Varun and Auren discuss:

  • The shift from seat-based to usage-based pricing
  • Why LinkedIn's data remains underutilized
  • How AI agents are replacing traditional SDR work
  • Building contributory data networks at scale

Looking for more tech, data and venture capital intel? Head to worldofdaas.com for our podcast, newsletter and events, and follow us on X @worldofdaas.

You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Varun Anand on X at @vaanand.

Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)


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Clay COO Varun Anand - why cutting-edge GTM teams are moving away from traditional CRMs

Clay COO Varun Anand - why cutting-edge GTM teams are moving away from traditional CRMs

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