David Fastuca

CEO & Co-Founder, Growth Forum | Proven Sales Systems Add Up To 57% More Deals in 8 Weeks or Less.

When sales teams get stuck, they search everywhere for answers.

Google. ChatGPT. YouTube.

What they usually find is recycled advice:

“Follow up more.”

“Build rapport.”

“Handle objections.”

Tips that sound good in theory but miss the context of your industry, your buyer, and your deal.

By the time reps finish searching, the opportunity is gone.

The moment to act has passed.

Coach Pilot fixes that.

It gives your team real-time guidance while the deal is still alive, not post-mortem.

The right move, in the right moment, directly in their workflow.

That’s how top teams turn hesitation into control and pipeline into revenue.

Find out more: https://www.coachpilot.com/

CMO & Co-Founder

150+ founders walk into a room.

No, this isn't a joke setup.

(Okay, maybe it is.)

Next week I'm on a panel at The First Move, and if you're trying to figure out sales without losing your mind, this one's for you.

Here's my lane:
→ How early-stage B2B teams build a sales engine that actually runs 
→ $75M in exits, what I learned that wasn't in the playbook 
→ Sales mistakes I see founders make constantly (ps made them too) 
→ Quick wins that move pipeline faster than you'd expect

A bit about me:
Built and sold companies. 
Now building Coach Pilot. 
Coach founders on sales and AI every week.

The pattern?
Founders don't lack ideas. 

They lack:
Clear next steps
Honest feedback
People who know how lonely this actually is

I care about rooms where "here's where I'm stuck" isn't followed by awkward silence.

The First Move is that room.

What you'll get:
→ Tools you can deploy immediately
→ Frameworks from real deals, not case studies
→ A network that actually follows up

Come join me Desmond John, Tara Salmon Kate Pollard, Grant Gwynne and Megan Luttrell

I'll be the one making sales jokes nobody asked for. 

Link's in the comments.👇

CEO, coachpilot.com • 2 Exits (75M Value) • Revenue Leaders Podcast, Co-Host

I stopped relying on inbound and outbound alone. 

My last 10 deals came from partners I treated like teammates.

At first, I pushed harder on email.

More sequences.
More LinkedIn messages.

Pipeline grew a bit.

Then stalled.

I felt stuck.

Heavy targets.
Same accounts.
Same buyer list.

No one wins that game.

I tried a different move.

I pulled my last 10 closed deals.
I asked one question: who else already had access?

I saw a pattern.

3–4 companies sold into the same accounts.
Same champions.
Same budget cycles.

They were already inside.

I reached out and said:

Let’s act as one team.

Monthly call.
Shared intel.
Warm intros both ways.
Mutual success plans for key accounts.

I helped them hit their number.

Market insights.
Deal strategy.
Air cover with my contacts.

In return, they opened doors I could not reach.

Those partners became my ecosystem.

Not a “program”.
A small crew I went deep with.

That crew filled my next quarter.

If you carry a bag and feel stuck in outbound, pull your last 10 deals and find the people who were already there.

Link in the COMMENTS to this episode with the Master of Partnerships Bryan Williams

Your reps don’t need another full-day training.

They need one 30‑minute call review that changes how they sell this week.

I learned this the hard way.

I ran full-day workshops.
Big decks.
Role plays.
Everyone said “great session” on the day.

Next week

Same calls
Same weak questions
Same “send me the deck” endings

The truth is:

- Reps cannot use 20 ideas from one long day.
- They can use one upgrade from one real call.

Here is how I run a 30‑minute review that sticks

- First 5 minutes
- AI finds key moments in the call.
- I pick one short clip that matters.

Next 5 minutes

- We watch the clip together.
- I pause at the key second.
- I ask the rep: “What do you see here?”

Now the work starts

We talk about the buyer.
Their risk.
Their power.
Their emotion.

I help the rep see the story under the words.

Then we shape one clear upgrade line

For example
How to open price.
How to ask a deeper question.
How to set one strong next step.

We write the new line together in simple words.

Last 10 minutes

We practice only that moment.
Three fast reps.
We swap words until the rep feels calm, not tense.

End of session

AI logs the focus, the new line, the next call to test it.
We track what happens on live deals.

The Result:
- Reps stop fearing call reviews.
- They start asking for them.

We built Coach Pilot to make sessions like this easy to run at scale.

If you want to see how our platform handles call reviews and the guidance it gives, check the link in my profile.

If you vanished tomorrow, which customer would miss you first?

Now ask: why did they choose you in the first place?

You think you know the answer.

Product.
Price.
Features.
Relationships.

This is "Noise".

When teams slow down and ask the hard question, a new story starts to show.

Customers say things like:
“You called when others sent links.”
“You listened when others pitched.”
“You made the next step clear.”

Real reasons.

Value lives in the small moments they remember.
Not the pitch you rehearsed.
Not the slide you love.
Not the feature you keep naming.

I ask sellers and leaders to do one simple thing.

Call three customers and say:
“I am not selling. I want to learn. Why did you choose us first? Why do you stay?”

Then write every word they say.

Patterns appear.

You start to see the real job you do in their world.
You see where you give safety, not software.
You see where you give clarity, not content.

From there, everything gets sharp.

Positioning.
Messaging.
Sales calls.
Product roadmap.

All change when you sell the reason customers chose you, not the story you tell yourself.

Start with one call today.

P.S. I'm on a journey to create the most useful platform to help sellers and leaders win more revenue in less time. 

If this interests you, check out my profile for more info.

Sales is getting harder.

Buyers are more informed. 
Cycles are longer. 
Reps are burning out.

The gap between top performers and everyone else keeps widening.

Here's what closes that gap: a sales playbook.

Not a static PDF that collects dust. 

A living system that: 
→ Captures your best sales practices 
→ Trains your team to execute them consistently 
→ Guides reps through every deal in real-time

We've spent months rebuilding our program to help you create exactly this.

Want free access? 

Fill out a 5-minute survey and it's yours—a $10,000+ value, on us.

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Luigi Prestinenzi

Founder 

Building P3 Recovery using the exact principles I teach in the Growth Forum Sales OS Program & Community.

Selling goes beyond an exchange of money for a product or service.

Far beyond.

Done right, selling is about creating an experience and an interaction that leaves both the buyer and seller feeling amazing.

This realisation completely changed my career. Because sales at its core is about heart and soul.

Here’s why:

Every sale comes down to a better outcome by way of a unique value narrative, deeper relationships, a greater sense of understanding between people and a purpose-driven sales culture.

This approach creates a… transformation…a positive impact… a better result.

Each sale presents a challenge. And each challenge provides me with an opportunity to learn and grow.

I’m not a guru or someone who sells as a side hustle.


It’s why I work with sales professionals and companies to create solutions that allow sellers the platform that enables them to reach their fullest potential…

… and with individual contributors in search of an environment and community that supports them so they can improve and grow as well.



► WHAT SETS ME APART FROM OTHER SALES COACHES?

For starters, 

I’m in the trenches every day, just like you… building relationships, gaining customers, and creating a greater sense of understanding between people by using a unique value-driven narrative.

I’m a practitioner.
I live and breathe sales.
I operate by the same principles I teach.

And they work.

These are the same principles I used to create massive impact for my clients.


I’ve worked with the most highly respected brands in the world, including: Stripe, Vanilla Soft, F45 Training, Agorapulse and HubSpot.

► THE RESULTS

Here’s what some of them said about my training:

"I would highly recommend Luigi and the team. They are knowledgeable practitioners that are easy to work with and, after just a few weeks, have made a massive impact."

Katie Swick
Global Sales Enablement Lead - Stripe

***

"Thank you Luigi for sharing your perspective. Your passion, experience and knowledge clearly shows through during our sessions. Thank you for motivating our team and sharing key learnings to accelerate growth. I strongly recommend Luigi to partake in sales enablement activities to support in achieving sales objectives".

Filippa Rusec - Chief Commercial Officer - DB Schenker.

Now I am using these skills to build P3 Recovery using the exact principles I teach in the Sales OS program by Growth Forum. 


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✉️ DM me on LinkedIn.

Co-Founder Growth Forum

Growth Forum is a community unlike anything you have experienced.
We aren’t concerned about getting the largest number of people. We’re focused on helping you, an individual, connect and engage with like-minded people in a handful of specific areas.

It’s why we’ve divided Growth Forum into four specialties. 

SALES
MARKETING
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

You’re free to bounce around from one to the other (who says sales and marketing can’t get along?) or stick with one.

Sign up for the waitlist (Feb 2023 Launch) - Link in Bio

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