Akio Aida

Bridge City Advisory

Most sales teams rely on heroic individual effort. I turn that into repeatable process.

Specialize in systematizing outbound (account mapping, targeting, campaigns) and POC execution

Partner with B2B companies to build GTM infrastructure that scales beyond their best performers

4x Founding AE | I've done the grinding. Now I build the systems.

Managing Director

Everyday

GTM Advisor

Hatchet Ventures 🪓

Simplisure

Wearing multiple hats -
GTM Engineer, PMM, Marketing

Fractional CRO

Grammarly

• Spearheaded the our agreement to be one of the first five GenAI solutions officially allowed at the Federal Government.  
• Developed first business case studies at Grammarly
• Help develop the first communication scores to help companies assess their market positioning

Enterprise Account Executive (Founding Sales Team)

Velou

Textio

Textio is the augmented writing platform for creating highly effective job listings and recruiting mail. By analyzing the hiring outcomes of more than 10 million documents a month, Textio predicts the performance of your listing and gives you real-time guidance on how to improve it.

On average, hiring teams with a high Textio Score recruit 25% more people qualified enough to interview and 23% more women—and they do it 17% faster.

How does your company stack up?

TalentBin by Monster (acquired by Randstad Holding NV)

Acquired by Randstad Holding NV.

Helping companies find unfindable passive candidates.

Channel Sales Manager/Sr. Business Partner

Acquired by Monster Worldwide Inc.

Helping recruiting teams uncover the unfindable talent by using the talent search engine for the entire web.

Account Executive

Market Development Representative (Founding Sales Team)

The Lions ™

The Lions is an angel-backed startup in San Francisco connecting elite salespeople with great managers at blue chip VC and angel-backed companies. We list as clients the Founders, CEOs and VPs of over 30 startups backed by over $500M in capital.

I joined The Lions at an early stage to help us grow into a dominant hub of data-driven career advice and job opportunities for elite sales talent nationwide.  Day-to-day, I'm responsible for growing our network of elite salespeople within the Bay Area, providing them insider detail on any company they want to learn about, and (at the right time) helping them meet senior leaders at our hand-selected portfolio of companies.

Account Executive (Founding Sales Team)

AidaCase

Product Developer

I turn heroic individual effort into repeatable sales processes.

Most sales teams rely on individual reps to "figure it out" — whether that's prospecting or running POCs.
I systematize both:

Outbound:
✓ Map your market and prioritize by signal
✓ Build executable campaigns, not research homework
✓ Make your whole team operate like your best BDR

POCs:
✓ Standardize what works instead of winging it every time
✓ Define clear win criteria and execution playbooks
✓ Close faster without relying on your top AE's magic

The result: Scale what your best reps do, across your entire team.

4x Founding AE | I've lived the chaos. Now I build systems that scale.

Every email, web page, and social media post makes an impression on your customers.
With Grammarly, you can be confident it's the right impression.

Justin Michael

Justin Michael Method (JMM)

Executive Coach & Creator

Jones Media Publishing

Bestselling Author 

HarperCollins Publishers

Bestselling Author

Salesforce, LinkedIn, SaaS Startups

Enterprise Sales Leader 

Unleashing Your Sales Superpowers @HSE

I work with the few who no longer chase.
The ones who already won.
The ones ready for precision, scale, and seven figures in silence.

They call me the hidden force behind $100K months.
“$148K in week one.” – Jonny Staker, CEO
“$144K in seven days.” – Chris Caldwell, Founder
“5X’d my pipeline and reached impossible CXOs within two months.” – Darren Bullivant, VP

I once generated over $1M from just 20 hours of cold calling. Before that, I carried numbers at Salesforce, LinkedIn, and a dozen startups, building six years of pipeline in six months.

I am the author of ten bestselling books, including 7-Figure Formula and Cold Call ALGO, which have redefined how elite operators win clients and scale.

Quietly ranked among the highest-earning executive coaches in B2B history, I operate in a tier almost no one reaches.

My frameworks have powered the top performers in SaaS and driven more than a billion dollars in pipeline. That became the Justin Michael Method.

Today I work with founders, CROs, and consultants who ascend quietly into seven figures. The work is unseen. The results are undeniable.

I do not coach the masses. I do not post for attention.
Just clients. Wires. Results.

Noise is everywhere. Signal is rare. I coach the ones who already won and make them impossible to ignore.

My clients move fast, execute harder, and multiply results.

Bestselling Author, Sales Superpowers & JMM 2.0

Order now @ SalesSuperpowers.com | Finally released my full JMM methodology with tips and tactics from hundreds of real coaching sessions. 5X your income today with the Justin Michael Method, a new outbound operating system to drive explosive revenue growth!

Justin Michael 🦸🏻

Becoming a 7-figure coach started with learning from the greats. Ankush Jain drops his tomorrow and Rich Litvin soon after. Their early work shaped the ground I rose on. Grateful for the lineage. Ready for the evolution.

The fastest way to lose a big deal is to ask for it too soon.
Pilots are not smaller. They are smarter.

In complex B2B sales, your biggest threat is not competition.
It is indecision.

The JOLT Effect found that 40 to 60% of deals die in “no decision.” 
Not because the buyer does not believe in the solution. 
It is FOMU. 

This is not fear of missing out.
This is "fear of messing up."
And fear of messing up kills more deals than price, product, or competitors combined.

When you pitch the big deal first, you force the buyer to defend risk.
When you start with a pilot, you reduce risk, build proof, and let results negotiate for you.

Smart sellers try to close big.
Elite sellers let small deals expand into big ones.
Not by chasing.
But by proving.

Only the top 1% close 7-figure deals out of the gate.
And it took me a decade to earn that gravity.

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Silence isn’t absence.
It is voltage.

Neuroscientists have discovered that just two minutes of silence a day triggers new cell growth in the hippocampus, the part of the brain that governs memory, focus, and decision-making.

In sales, silence does the same thing for power.
It rewires the room.
It forces others to think.
To feel.
To follow.

Whoever can hold silence the longest controls the frame.
Speaking fills space.
Silence bends it.

When they talk, let them.
When they pause, hold.
When they ask the price, breathe.

Silence isn’t empty.
It is dominance in disguise.

The city hums like circuitry. Then it starts raining intelligence.

Kuala Lumpur. Neon rain.

Tech-Powered Sales glowing between Think and Grow Rich and Coach Builder.

They said AI would replace salespeople.
It didn’t. It replaced mediocrity.

Selling didn’t die.
It evolved.
A hybrid organism of instinct and algorithm, emotion and analysis, charisma and code.

I didn’t write a sales book.
I wrote the warning hidden inside a blueprint.

McKinsey calls it augmented performance.
Gartner calls it hybrid intelligence.
I call it raising your TQ.

TQ is the new IQ.

The ability to merge with machines without losing your humanity.
To command technology without worshiping it.
To build empires from precision and empathy in the same breath.

In this new world, intelligence is no longer what you know—
but how fast you can teach the machines to think the way you do.

Persuasion isn’t pitched. It’s programmed.
Emotion becomes data. Attention becomes currency. Silence becomes leverage.

The top one percent will not pitch. They will program.
They will not chase. They will be chased by design.

Charisma without code is nostalgia.
Code without charisma is static.
Only those who master both will define the decade.

📘 Tech-Powered Sales: https://lnkd.in/e3zvWRWu

Written in 2021. Lived in 2025.

The future isn’t coming.
It’s remembering you.

I wrote it before the storm so the next generation would know how to sell inside it.

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