sales

“If you want to take a super Silicon Valley view of sales, our goal is to fund engineering, and my ability to do that successfully requires me to be a good forecaster.”

“Sort of, the other thing that I think if you're a fan of I think is Bob Cialdini, the guy that wrote the Influence book basically says that for creative, expansive type of tasks, giving people explicit compensation is actually really counterproductive. They te…”

“When it comes to setting pricing and to understanding what the market will bear, like there's nothing that can do it except for sales. Like this is just my experience. It's not market research. It's not marketing. It's not the entrepreneur. I don't believe if …”

“Like over time, R and D pencils out as almost a fixed cost, or at least like super sublinear, right? You know, you've got a number of engineers, but sales scales linearly with a number of people on the ground.”

“Some companies like, you know, listen, we're just going to do organic growth. And they don't actually do sales. And in our experience, these tend not to be kind of hyper growth on the revenue side, right? So they'll continue to kind of grow customers, but it's…”

“I think the thing that I would tell that person and I tell other founders is, like, I think it's better to Think about sales as like a numbers game. It's like, how many people do you talk to? How good's your conversion rate? And you know, that's the, that equa…”