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Mukherjee: Future sales teams will shrink to 10-20% of current sizes
“Dramatically smaller. It could be 10 to 20% of current kind of org sizes.”
Mukherjee: Enterprise AI tools face severe end-user retention and churn issues
“Is there going to be retention and churn issues from an end user perspective? A hundred percent.”
Mukherjee: AI productivity will cut sales and marketing OPEX from 40% to 20%
“Instead of having large teams, you need fewer teams who hold more book, and management layers kind of compress, and then you need different kinds of leaders. And that completely changes, like, sales and marketing is 40% of your OPEX, right? Like, it could pote…”
Mukherjee: Enterprise buyers will always require human sales reps, not just self-serve software
“Fully believe that you need humans because customers want their problem to be solved. They don't give a F about products or services. They want their pain to be solved, and they want to build a non-transactional relationship with these vendors.”
Mukherjee: Modern software companies will shift to quota-carrying, high-variable compensation
“And I do believe that it is a hard path, but that is where modern businesses will go. You will invest in people who have full skin in the game and have this kind of owner mindset.”
Mukherjee: Perplexity will remain a top-three player or dominate a large niche
“At the very minimum, they'll find a massive kind of niche, like a large Dow segment that they will be the best at. If not, they would be, like, a strong player in the top three for sure.”
Mukherjee: Top sales reps will handle 2x to 3x more output this year
“They will be able to do a lot more. They'll be able to do two to maybe three times more this year.”