Alex McNaughten

About Alex McNaughten

I\'m the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Grw. We build Taylor, the AI teammate that builds and runs your sales systems. Taylor connects to your CRM, joins your meetings, and lives in Slack alongside your team. She runs the workflows that keep deals moving, pipelines honest, and reps supported. Meeting prep, post-call follow-ups, pipeline reviews, CRM hygiene, coaching and more. Proactively, every day, without being asked. For me, Grw is the culmination of 14+ years as a seller, leader and 2x founder in the GTM space. I\'ve lived the problem. Dozens of critical jobs that need to happen consistently for a sales team to perform, spread across stretched people who are already doing too much. Taylor changes that. My journey in sales began when I dropped out of college at 19 to lead revenue for a tech startup. After 6 years of exceeding targets & building teams for others, I founded New Zealand\'s top revenue acceleration consultancy \'Sales Leaders\' in 2018. I\'ve supported over 140+ companies, including a dozen fractional leadership engagements, helping pre-revenue startups through to large publicly listed corporations. I\'ve helped generate $100s of millions in revenues through scaling & transforming revenue functions. In 2020, I co-founded \'Apprento\', a hybrid sales training and staffing firm. Working with ~100 companies Apprento halves ramp times, ensures quotas are hit, whilst reducing new hire failure rates to less than 3%. I sold the majority of my stake in Apprento in 2024. Grw AI began when I teamed up with Alistair McLeay (experienced founder & Cambridge Masters in Machine Learning) and Dan Ash (data scientist, full-stack engineer & product leader) to build the AI teammate every sales team deserves. Outside of business, I enjoy interviewing sales leaders for my \'Rev-Up Sales\' podcast, poker & boxing. If you want to talk sales and AI, DM me!

Experience

1. Co-founder Co-CEO

   Grw Ai

   Apr 2024 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   At Grw, We build Taylor, the AI teammate that builds and runs your sales systems. Taylor connects to your CRM, joins your meetings, and lives in Slack alongside your team. She runs the workflows that keep deals moving, pipelines honest, and reps supported. Meeting prep, post-call follow-ups, pipeline reviews, CRM hygiene, coaching and more. Proactively, every day, without being asked. For me, Grw is the culmination of 14+ years as a seller, leader and 2x founder in the GTM space. I\'ve lived the problem. Dozens of critical jobs that need to happen consistently for a sales team to perform, spread across stretched people who are already doing too much. Taylor changes that.Teams running on Taylor increase quota attainment by 30%, increase win rates by 28% and cut ramp times in half, without adding to the workload of stretched humans.

Education

• Kristin School

  International Baccalaureate:, Economics, Business and management, Mathematics, English, French, Chemistry

• University of Auckland

  Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Finance