Relationships over Transactional Sales: The Secret to Lasting Growth with Miguel Navarro

Relationships over Transactional Sales: The Secret to Lasting Growth with Miguel Navarro

Author: Venture Guides November 20, 2025 Duration: 24:44
Welcome to Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast, the podcast for early-stage founders and startup leaders who know that great companies aren’t lucky… they’re built through smart execution and a bulletproof go-to-market strategy. On this episode, host Sage Nye sits down with Miguel Navarro, Head of Applied Emerging Technologies at KeyBank, to unpack why authentic relationships outlast transactional sales and why genuine passion beats chasing quick profits. From cold calls in Times Square to leading in AI and emerging tech, Miguel shares how deep immersion, curiosity-driven learning, and reusable customer relationships built on mutual trust create lasting impact. Tune in for practical insights on building meaningful companies and scaling with purpose.

Sage Nye, Managing Partner at Venture Guides, hosts Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast, a series built on the premise that lasting companies are engineered, not discovered by chance. This podcast moves beyond theoretical advice to focus on the tangible mechanics of launching and scaling a business, specifically for founders and leaders in the early, precarious stages. Each episode features frank discussions with a range of voices crucial to the journey-technical founders who have navigated product-market fit, investors who scrutinize traction, and go-to-market experts who specialize in building repeatable sales engines. The conversations are candid by design, stripping away the glossy narratives to examine what actually worked, what failed, and why. Listeners will find a resource devoid of fluff, where proven playbooks and operational realities take center stage. It’s for those who understand that strategy is meaningless without execution, and that a bulletproof go-to-market plan is the foundation upon which everything else is built. Tune in for the real talk needed to translate vision into viable, growing revenue.
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