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Eleanor Dorfman

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Sep 14, 2022
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Tech sales candidates are prioritizing cash over equity to de-risk careers
“And so I think now folks are optimizing for cash a little bit more than equity. Still both though. But they're more focused on de-risking versus finding the moonshot.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 30:04 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022 negative
Insight
Early-stage startups should hire adaptable 'street fighters' over incumbent sales reps
“So I think in the beginning, you have no idea what you're doing. You have some ideas, you know, what hypotheses you're testing, but you don't have sales enablement. You don't really have the playbook for the deals yet. Do you have your ICP? Do you know if your…”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 21:31 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022 neutral
Insight
Dorfman: Discounting in sales is a red herring without clear ROI
“There's a time and a place. But I think discounting is Sort of a false hearing. It's just, do you understand the value you're providing? Do you understand how important that is to them and what problems you're solving? Do you understand their alternative to us…”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 35:35 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
Startups must choose between PLG and enterprise sales at $100M ARR
“I think that works from zero to a hundred million roughly. And I think once you hit around a hundred million, You need to start to pick a lane a little bit more because by that stage, your buyer has likely changed.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 12:37 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
Dorfman: Sales accelerates healthy systems, cannot fix broken ones
“Sales is there to accelerate a healthy machine, but it can't fix a broken one.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 9:36 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
Founders should generate sales playbook inputs, not write the playbooks themselves
“That's not their job, I believe, to create the sales playbook, but it is their job to generate the inputs That go into that playbook.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 7:13 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022 negative
Insight
Dorfman: Startups should not reinvent software pricing models
“They, you know, there are no models going out and creating a new pricing model is why, like, do not reinvent the wheel when it comes to pricing.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 18:56 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Dorfman: Retool hired sales enablement too late, creating process debt
“I think that one of my biggest lessons was you hire for sales enablement too late and I think we hired too late. I think we have a lot of Process debt as a result.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 37:48 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
Dorfman: Customer-first mindset cannot be taught and must be bought when hiring
“A customer first mindset is also something you can't teach. You can't build it. You have to buy it.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 25:33 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
Dorfman: Never build processes or teams before defining the problem
“Do not ever build a process or a structure or a team or anything until you know what problem you're trying to solve.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 5:06 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
An empty calendar and lack of questions are early sales mis-hire indicators
“I would say an empty calendar is a red flag to your point. They're not outbounding. They're not booking any meetings. They're not meeting with their SDR. They're not meeting with their sales engineer. They're not meeting with their CSMs. So I think an empty ca…”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 40:04 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
Dorfman: Interviewers must probe deeply because sales candidates excel at selling themselves
“Salespeople are good at selling. That is their job. And when they're interviewing, they're selling their favorite subject themselves. And the key is to go 19 levels deeper until you reach the real point.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 26:13 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
Dorfman: Selling new software categories requires driving behavior change
“Selling into a new category is really challenging. It's a different type of challenge retools, a new category segment was a new category. You're not just selling a point solution. You're not just selling a product. You have to create budgets. You have to creat…”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 5:37 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022
Insight
Sales leaders should design compensation plans where 80% of reps hit quota
“And how can you take that and map it into a comp plan where, you know, hopefully I think the logic I've always used is that you should design a comp structure where at least 80% of your reps are hitting.”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 31:44 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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