David Fastuca

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

Most people collect titles. I collect exits.Two companies built from scratch. One bought back for $1 during COVID. Both sold. Combined valuation of ~$75M. And I'm just getting started.Those exits taught me something most sales leaders learn too late: the difference between teams that hit quota and teams that don't isn't talent. It's coaching. Specifically, the lack of it, at the moment it matters most.That's why I co-founded Coach Pilot.Coach Pilot is an AI-powered sales platform that delivers real-time coaching to B2B sales reps, in the flow of their work. Not after the call. Not in a quarterly review. Right when it counts. Our customers are seeing 7.8x pipeline growth and 39% quota lift, not because we gave their reps more training, but because we gave them better coaching at the right time.Before Coach Pilot, I co-founded Growth Forum, a B2B sales education community with 25,000+ newsletter subscribers, a top 1.5% global podcast, and an Amazon best-selling book, "The B2B Sales Playbook."I only talk about what I've actually done. No theory. No fluff.If you're leading a B2B sales team and want to see what real-time AI coaching looks like in practice, let's talk.

CMO & Co-Founder

Most reps walk into calls cold. 
AI fixes that in 3 minutes.

I used to spend 20-30 minutes before every important call digging through LinkedIn, company news, annual reports, and CRM notes.

Half the time I'd still show up under-prepared.

Now I run an AI pre-call briefing that pulls together everything I need in under 3 minutes — and my reps do the same.

Here's the exact system:

Pull the prospect's LinkedIn activity from the last 30 days, look for pain signals, industry comments, posts about growth or change

Run a company news search; funding rounds, leadership changes, product launches, press releases from the last 90 days

Query your CRM for all past interactions: emails, call notes, deal stages, and last touch

Feed all of that into an AI prompt that outputs a pre-call brief: 
"What they care about, what to ask, what to avoid"

Flag any deal-relevant triggers (new CRO hired, missed earnings, expanding into a new market)

The brief lands in my inbox 15 minutes before the call.

I walk in knowing their world, their priorities, and the questions most likely to open them up.

That's not sales theatre. 

That's preparation that turns conversations into pipeline.

Save this and run it before your next three calls. 
The difference is immediate.

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

College teacher turned ghostwriter | Scaling founders, coaches, and consultants to $100K+ /mo | Writing to build wealth and better self | 98,000 on Twitter (X)

Taylin John Simmonds

3 years ago, a friend lent me $40K to pay off my debt. So I could focus on business.

2 years ago, I offered to pay it back. He said no. Reinvest. Pay me later. 1 year ago, first payment. 

Yesterday, I paid him back!

Find the people who bet on you before it makes sense. Then spend your life proving them right.

College teacher turned Substack ghostwriter | Thoughts about craft, ideas, and AI as a creative partner (not a replacement) | 2B impressions | $4M+ revenue generated | All in on Substack

Stop calling yourself a content creator. Content creators chase algorithms. You're cultivating a body of work.

You're not in the content game. You're in the depth game.

And depth doesn't scale. It compounds.

I'm noticing a quiet rebellion against balance. 

People who disappear into their craft. 12, 15 hours a day for weeks. Then step back completely. No guilt. No routine. No splitting the difference. Full immersion, then full recovery. 

Seasons, not schedules.

You don't actually want to stop working. You just haven't found work worth your devotion.

The goal isn't to do less. It's to care so deeply about one thing that everything else becomes noise.

Find that thing. Then you'll never need convincing to start.

Everyone's trying to escape work. Fewer hours. Passive income. Early retirement. That's not freedom. That's avoidance.

You don't want to do less. You want something worth pouring everything into. Work that's worthy of your full attention, your full energy, your full devotion.

Find that first.

If AI is speeding up your writing process, you're using it wrong.

AI should slow you down. Stress-test your ideas. Pressure-test your arguments. Find the angle that actually matters before you write a word.

The bottleneck was never your writing speed. It was your thinking clarity.

You don't need 100 clients. You need a handful of the right ones and the devotion to serve them so well they never want to leave.

No empire. No team of 30. No "scaling to seven figures."

Just craft you're proud of and a livelihood that lets you live well.

A book you highlighted but never practiced is a book you never read.

Understanding doesn't live in the notes you took.

It lives in the choices you made differently afterward.

The real value in the AI age isn't what you know. It's who you can inspire.

Give them an aim, a compelling reason, and the next small step when everything feels overwhelming.

If you want to matter in the AI age, don't just share knowledge. 
Lend direction.

You're behind because you've never given 100% of yourself to the thing you care about.

Subtract everything that isn't it. Give it everything you have. Not 40%. Not most days. Everything.

You've never seen what happens when you actually commit. Find out.

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