Episode 22: Gong Throws Shade, SaaS Pay Disasters & The LinkedIn Post Thief

In Episode 22 of Notorious B2B, Tim goes solo (yes, Tas took PTO like a weirdo) and unpacks one of the spiciest dockets yet. First up: Two Sales tech giants Salesloft and Clari merge and one of their competitor: Gong turns it into a roast on Linkedin. Then, we look at Microsoft Teams’ surprising dominance over Slack (Which is sad), and the shocking pay ranges companies are offering for heavy-duty creative and strategy roles. Also in this episode:  • Buffer cancels your unused paid plan on purpose (How nice of them)  • The death spiral of LinkedIn comment-gating  • Sydney Sweeney’s AE ad sparks some “interesting” marketing takes  • A Bay Area rapper scams Devin Reed (and gets a diss track in return)  • The art and shamelessness of stealing LinkedIn posts  • PSA: Your ChatGPT prompts can now be used in court What’s inside:  • Gong’s “group therapy” jab at competitors  • 18K salaries for big creative roles  • Buffer’s generosity vs. SaaS growth goals  • The great comment-gate epidemic  • LinkedIn drama: post theft, bad takes, and scams   Timestamps: 0:00 — Welcome to Notorious B2B 1:26 — Salesloft + Clari merge: the new Sales Tech superpower 4:29 — Why Microsoft Teams quietly crushed Slack 6:16 — Wild pay ranges for creative & strategy roles 11:25 — Buffer cancels unused paid plans: generous or strategic? 14:25 — LinkedIn’s new epidemic: comment-gating to death 17:27 — Sydney Sweeney’s ad and the marketing meltdown that followed 21:01 — A Bay Area rapper scams Devin Reed… and gets a diss track 24:51 — The art (and shamelessness) of stealing LinkedIn posts 29:44 — PSA: Your ChatGPT prompts can now be used in court   -------------------------   📲 Connect with us: Tim Davidson – ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠⁠⁠ Tas Bober – ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠⁠⁠ 👉 Subscribe for more no-BS breakdowns of the internet's wildest B2B moments.