Monaco

We launched 60 billboards across San Francisco and Highway 101 this week. Most startup billboards are forgettable. Ours is just a giant $.  Here’s the Monaco billboard strategy and what startups should know before spending money on out-of-home advertising 🧵

🗣️ calling all founder poker sharks Time to find out which ones know how to play Tag someone who talks a big game 👇🃏

$100,000 cash prize founder poker tournament. No entry fee. Announcing The Monaco Invitational, presented by @MonacoGTM . This will be the largest founder poker tournament (and party) of all time. In addition to giving away $100,000 to the winners in the free to play tournament, we'll have celebrity guests, an incredible food and beverage program, and the coolest venue in San Francisco. This will be the event that sets the gold standard for startup events. Invitations are reserved for Monaco customers, anyone who refers a Monaco customer, and friends of the firm. Know a founder who should be there? Tag them in the comments. Check out more details in the invitation on tournament rules and eligibility.

We just launched Monaco. Here’s the exact playbook we used. I hope it's helpful to other founders and startups: 1. The launch video: most launch videos I see orient around some stressed out person at their desk or some philosophical approach to company building. Do not do this.

@saastr. Day One. 6-figure deal booked. No big deal. Just Monaco.

@MonacoGTM paid for itself in one day!

Holy cow @MonacoGTM already booked us an epic meeting on Day 1 after Go Live! Way to go team + @samdblond Gonna be a great first week!!

Webinar waitlist -> forms.gle/Jt7DzYDMdxCJxj…

Yesterday was chaotic in a good way. A ton of demand. Appreciate everyone reaching out. We also realized after the fact that we forgot to post the usual launch content, so: 📸 Nasdaq Times Square 📸 Trucks 📸 Poker Sets If you’re booked out more than 2-4 weeks and believe you’re a great candidate to get started early, reach out to sales@monaco.com. @samdblond will be hosting live webinars next week as well. Sign-up below. Details coming soon.

I've tried probably a dozen CRMs over the years. Monaco is the first one that really understands the end-to-end lifecycle... not just "managing pipelines" but sourcing, scoring, self-driving pipeline management, midfunnel-engagement... The product actually looks like this and does this btw, this isn't a sizzle reel. And the team moves really fast and the rate of improvement is crazy. Honestly, calling it a CRM feels like a disservice, it's more like a GTM Machine. Congrats to Sam and the team on the launch!

anyone else get hit with 5 online/irl touchpoints by Monaco today?

The step-change in AI capabilities gives us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink legacy workflows and the fragmented world of revenue systems - and to build something substantially simpler, automated, and connected from the ground up. That’s the core belief on which @brianblond, @samdblond, @abishekv and I started Monaco. This requires a modern architecture all the way from the data layer to the UI, and everything in between. Over the past few months, we’ve been building exactly that alongside some of the fastest-growing startups as our early customers. Monaco handles the full sales motion end-to-end. Prospecting. Outreach. Pipeline. Deal tracking. All AI-native, all integrated, all actually talking to each other. We’re super excited to finally share it with the world today.

Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond launches AI sales startup to upend Salesforce  techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/for…

We ripped out Hubspot, Attio, and a disparate suite of sales tooling in favor of Monaco. If you care about working with a vendor whose team is genuinely customer obsessed, I couldn’t recommend it more. We don’t find it necessary to request support often (product works!) but I swear their team’s average response time is 2 mins.

I was CRO at Flexport from 0 to 1,000,000,000 and I legitimately think we could’ve gone twice as fast if something like Monaco had existed then. Sam Blond is the destroyer of worlds. The AI saas apocalypse is here.

I’m thrilled to announce Monaco is coming out of stealth.  My brother Sam Blond and I started Monaco to build the first AI-native revenue platform for startups. We incubated at Human Capital and have raised $35M+ from Founders Fund, Human Capital, and an incredible group of angels. After years as a CRO, I was fed up with bloated CRMs and a maze of disconnected tools that took armies of consultants just to function—and still didn’t help teams sell. AI changes everything. The CRM as we know it is dead. Monaco replaces the entire revenue stack—prospecting, outreach, pipeline, and deal management—with one AI-native system that actually does the work with you, not just records it. As Peter Thiel said: “No product sells itself—though Monaco comes close.”

Congrats @samdblond, Abhishek, Prashant and the Monaco team on the launch and what a cool way to launch!

We're launching Monaco today. Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups. The platform disrupting sales with AI has finally arrived.

Our bad. 😬