Signal & Stakes
Signal & Stakes is a podcast about the technology and business decisions senior executives make and the consequences that follow. Hosted under GNW Consulting, the show surfaces real decisions made by CMOs, CROs, CIOs, and senior leaders in marketing, revenue operations, and technology, examining the signals they caught, the ones they missed, and what was at stake either way.
Each episode explores a single consequential moment inside an organization. Topics include enterprise technology strategy, marketing technology decisions, revenue operations leadership, go-to-market alignment, organizational decision-making, and the gap between executive intent and business outcome.
Signal & Stakes is not a best practices show. It does not offer frameworks, playbooks, or thought leadership. It offers honest accounts of real decisions, made under pressure, with incomplete information, and what happened next. Some of these stories end well. Some do not. All of them are told without the cleanup.
The show is built for people accountable for how technology shapes the way their organizations operate and compete. That includes chief marketing officers, chief revenue officers, chief information officers, vice presidents of marketing, vice presidents of revenue operations, senior directors, and the operators who support them.
Signal & Stakes is produced by GNW Consulting, a marketing technology and revenue operations firm that helps enterprise organizations operationalize the platforms and strategies they have already invested in.
New episodes explore decisions that looked operational until they weren't and the moments that determined what followed.
Signal & Stakes
Latest Episodes
Adobe Summit 2026: Your Operating Model Is Not Ready For AI
Episode Description:Adobe just renamed a $5B product line and quietly redefined the category. The harder question is who actually owns the operating model running underneath it. In this episode, Raja Walia and Akande Davis br...
Growth Plans? Easy. Owning The Risk? Another Story...
Signal & Stakes Season 2, Episode 3Episode Title: Growth Plans Are Easy. Owning the Risk Is the Job.Episode Description: Any leadership team can write a growth plan. The harder question is who owns ...
Why CMOs and CROs Are Incentivized to Disagree
Signal & Stakes Season 2, Episode 2Episode Title: CMOs and CROs Are Not Incentivized to Agree. That Is a Design Problem.Episode Description: The tension between CMOs and CROs is not a personality co...
Why AI Makes CMOs Critical in 2026, and Why It Will End Many of Them
Signal & Stakes Season 2, Episode 1Episode Title: Why AI Makes the CMO Role Critical in 2026. And Why It Will End Many of Them.Episode Description: AI does not care about your intent, your political...
Revenue Architecture vs. Revenue Theater: Are You Building or Performing?
There’s a fine line between building scalable revenue infrastructure and just putting on a good show.In this episode of Call It RevOps, we dive into the growing problem of revenue theater: pretty dashboards no one uses, i...