A10 · Company teardowns · 14 companies

GTM Teardowns

Original analysis — not public-fact rehash.

14 company teardowns through the GTM World Model lens — original analysis, not public-fact rehash. Each maps the company's actual GTM choices against the model's tiers, equations, and failure modes.
A10 · Teardowns Last updated 2026-06-18

All 14 teardowns

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Snowflake

How Snowflake built a $3.4B ARR consumption-based GTM machine

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HubSpot

How HubSpot built a $2.6B ARR PLG-to-enterprise flywheel

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Salesforce

How Salesforce scaled SLG to $35B ARR and built a Customer 360 platform moat

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Datadog

How Datadog built a $2.6B ARR PLG + enterprise GTM with 130%+ NRR

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Notion

How Notion built a $10B valuation through bottoms-up PLG and viral coefficient

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Figma

How Figma built a 50x ARR valuation through community-led PLG and network effects

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Stripe

How Stripe built a $1.9T payment-volume franchise on developer-first, API-led distribution

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Atlassian

How Atlassian reached $4.4B revenue with no outbound sales force for years

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Zoom

How Zoom turned a viral freemium loop into 140% net dollar expansion

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Slack

How Slack reached 143% net dollar retention on bottoms-up virality

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Shopify

How Shopify turned an App Store ecosystem into a $292B GMV commerce platform

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Palantir

How Palantir built a $2.87B forward-deployed enterprise franchise on ontology lock-in

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OpenAI

How OpenAI created the AI-assistant category and scaled to a $25B run-rate

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Canva

How Canva built a 265M-user design platform on programmatic SEO and a useful free tier

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