David Fastuca

Growth Forum

We help you build pipeline and expand customers–faster. Growth Forum is a leading sales learning platform providing a continuous live learning solution for high-growth companies.
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The traditional education system has let B2B companies down, with a complete lack of formal, structured education in sales and go-to-market.
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It means 100 million+ people across the world are learning on the job, and every person responsible for revenue is at constant risk of missing their targets and often do.
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Growth Forum is solving this skills crisis by bringing together by teaching structured, live online courses with high learning design principles.

Growth Forum's "Sales OS" program has generated over 547 million in new deals for its members since launching in May 2023.

CEO & Co-Founder

"How To Sell" Podcast

I'm a proud co-host along with Luigi Prestinenzi of the "How To Sell" podcast, a top-rated business podcast. Each week, we discuss the world of B2B sales and how you can apply what's working to your business to win more deals.

Top 1.5% Business Podcast (Co-Host)

The Sales Playbook

A step-by-step playbook on how to create a sales operating system that creates a flood of qualified deals. Written By Luigi Prestinenzi & David Fastuca

The B2B Sales Playbook: Launching March 2025

Warmly,

Warmly is the first autonomous revenue orchestration platform purpose built for SMB sized revenue teams. The platform orchestrates metadata from sales enablement tools, B2B intent, and enrichment tools to identify, track, and connect with website visitors who are ready to convert. By automatically aggregating data and integrating insights from various platforms, Warmly orchestrates the most effective next step to drive qualified conversations for the sales team.

Investor & Advisor

Entrepreneurs'​ Organization

Board Member

Entrepreneurs' Organization, or EO, is one of the world's largest mastermind groups, enabling more than 13,000 like-minded entrepreneurs to learn from and help each other via online forums, events, and educational and leadership growth opportunities.

EO Member

The Startup Network

The Startup Network is Australia's largest startup network. No matter where you are in your journey as a startup founder, you can be sure to find the support you need with an amazing community of like-minded founders.

Sales Program Mentor & Coach

Locomote

Founding Shareholder

July 2020 - We aquired 100% of Locomote back from Travelport.com.

Locomote is a technology-led corporate travel agency. Streamlining everything to do with booking and managing business travel. Into one easy-to-use platform, backed by our 5-star travel agents.

CMO & Co-Founder

Post 100% sale in 2016 and staying on for a 2-year handover of Locomote to Travelport.com I left the business in 2018.

Post Acquisition

Travelport.com acquires the majority stake of Locomote and pivots business from a technology-led end-to-end travel company to a technology platform reselling it to travel agencies globally.

Locomote rebranded as Travelport Locomote and becomes a product within Travelport.com.

2015 - Travelport.com (NYSE: TVPT) acquires an additional 3% of Locomote.com.
2016 - Travelport.com (NYSE: TVPT) acquires the remaining 48% of Locomote.com.

Leading product strategy, technology, engineering teams, concept development and overall direction of the now Travelport Locomote.

Co-Founder / Chief Marketing & Experience Officer

2014 - Travelport.com (NYSE: TVPT) acquires 49% of Locomote.com.

Locomote was developed to change the current travel management landscape by empowering organisations to have complete control and visibility of their global travel programme and travel supply chain. 

A low cost, low touch solution which reduces the reliance on traditional bookings, Locomote creates a completely new automated and innovative solution for travel management.

With a global reach, built as a scalable platform, Locomote is the only truly corporate-specific travel platform in the market with access to the largest array of travel content.

Fathom (YC W21)

Founded by Richard White, Ex-Founder & CEO of UserVoice.com, Fathom is a free app that records, transcribes & highlights your calls so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.

Advisor

Venezia FC

Investor & Shareholder

Melbourne Victory Football Club

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

I started my entrepreneurial journey at just twelve years old. 

Back then, I used the school computer lab to make my business cards, and I sold designs to friends and family.

I’ve been obsessed with turning pressure into productivity ever since.

As the CEO & Co-Founder of Growth Forum and former Co-Founder of Locomote, I’ve learned what it takes to scale a business under pressure.

I know the challenges founders face.

You’re juggling endless tasks while also being relied on to prospect new leads and close deals.

Sales is the lifeblood of your business, after all.

That’s why we built our Sales OS program.

It’s a step-by-step blueprint for rapidly growing your sales while slashing your working hours in half.

Our goal is to equip you with the strategies and tactics that have helped countless businesses grow and thrive, even amidst challenging economic conditions.

I bet you're thinking:

“Will these methods work for me? Are online courses and coaching actually effective?”

The short answer: Yes. Otherwise, I would be in trouble ;-)

Our tailored approach meets your unique challenges and delivers real, tangible results.

So if you’re a SaaS or B2B founder ready to overcome sales hurdles, build a repeatable system, and create an overflowing pipeline…

👉 Head to my Featured Section and book your Free Sales Audit

𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁.
Not me. Not some guru. Not anyone.

We are all figuring it out as we go.
I used to think once you build a system, you’re done.
That structure fixes chaos.
That the right strategy brings stability.

Then the market changed.
What worked, stopped working.
The team followed, until they couldn’t anymore.

I was 32.
Leading a team, managing pressure, trying to look in control.
But deep down, I wasn’t sure if I was leading or just reacting.

That’s when it hit me.

The system doesn’t change the company.
You do, if you’re willing to change yourself first.
You don’t build a strategy for what you already know.

You build a structure that forces you to become the leader the next stage demands.

People don’t need perfect answers.

They need to see what it looks like to walk into uncertainty with clarity, pace, and belief.

If you’re building a team that has to move fast without losing its core.

Coach Pilot is the system that helps you lead that transformation from the inside out.

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://lnkd.in/gT2Bn5eJ

CEO @ Coach Pilot • 2 SaaS Exits (75M Value) • Building an AI Coaching Agent That Can Help You Do The Same.

Your team won’t do what you say.
They’ll do what you repeat.

Sales leadership today is not about more pressure.
It is about consistent direction.

Most GTM leaders still believe performance drops because of low motivation.

In reality, it drops because there is no operating rhythm.

I worked with a VP of Sales who adjusted strategy every few days.

The team wasn’t resisting change. They were reacting to chaos.

No one knew what “good execution” looked like on a daily level.

We rebuilt the foundation.

Here’s the exact structure:
• One clear daily focus for every rep
• 3-minute morning syncs using deal signals from Coach Pilot
• Weekly 1:1s based on actual behavior, not anecdotes

Within 3 weeks, pipeline velocity increased.
Call quality improved.
Forecast accuracy stabilized.

Progress is not the result of big pushes.
It is built through daily repetition.

That’s what real sales leadership looks like.
Clarity. Rhythm. And the discipline to protect both.

If you want the exact framework we used, DM me or comment CLOSE and I’ll send it to you for free.

You think your team is underperforming.
But it’s not about effort. Or talent. Or product knowledge.

Here’s what reps are actually missing:
1) Clear next steps
→ Most reps leave calls with vague ideas, not committed actions.
→ Your system should make “what happens next” painfully obvious.

2) Buyer signals
→ Deals don’t stall because buyers disappear.
→ They stall because reps miss what buyers actually do.

3)Timing alignment
→ You don’t lose to better products.
→ You lose to better timing.

4) Follow-up rhythm
→ Top reps don’t “remember” to follow up.
→ They operate inside a rhythm that never lets momentum die.

5) Not your product
→ They’re not buying your CRM, your deck, or your logo.
→ They’re buying a system that helps them move 𝘯𝘰𝘸.

Most B2B teams close just 1 out of 5 deals.

Not because reps don’t try, but because they operate inside broken systems.

In SaaS, high-ticket deals now take up to 6 months and hundreds of interactions.

Here’s what this could look like for you.
You close 1 out of 3.
Your sales cycle drops from 6 months to 3.
Your reps stop guessing and start following clear instructions at the right time.

If you want to apply this framework and system, comment CLOSE and I’ll show you exactly how to do it for free.

Most leaders try to predict the future.
The best ones build it.

I’ve seen this play out inside high-performing sales teams.

The ones that win don’t wait for perfect signals. They don’t chase trends or hope next quarter will fix this one.

They build infrastructure that turns every rep into a decision-maker.

They install clarity directly into daily execution.
Not through theory.
But through precision systems.

→ Systems that tell you when a deal is shifting
→ Systems that prescribe the next best move
→ Systems that surface risks while there’s still time to act

This is what future-proofing actually looks like.
Not vision boards.
Repeatable moves.
You don’t scale results by watching the future.
You scale them by shaping it.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 or you want to be one of them apply for early access to Coach Pilot: https://lnkd.in/gT2Bn5eJ

“Let’s regroup next week”
= buyer slipped away.

That one sentence has killed more deals than bad demos.

Calls end without direction or urgency.
Everyone assumes the deal is safe. It isn’t.
Teams miss small shifts in intent.

They don’t act when the buyer starts pulling back.
The deal stalls. Follow-ups get ignored.
By the time you react, it’s too late.

One team had 17 mid-stage deals.

Coach Pilot flagged 11 at risk based on live signals.

We showed them exactly when to shift the ask or change timing.

Half of those deals closed.

What made the difference was a simple shift in how they ran the calls:
• Detect hesitation early
• Shift focus mid-call
• Confirm next steps before the call ends

Close rate jumped from 19% to 38% in 21 days.

Comment Coach Pilot or DM me and I’ll show you how it works in your environment including which deals you can restart or re-engage that you don’t even realize are still alive.

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