sales organization

3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Peter Levine · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
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Levine: Strong early organic sales makes founders reluctant to build sales teams
“I would argue that the more successful a product is, the better the product market fit is early on, and the more success a company has with no sales organization in the beginning, the more reluctant that company is to bring on sales along the way”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:28 a16z Podcast | Embracing Sales
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Levine: Most tech mergers fail due to sales and go-to-market confusion
“Most of these mergers fail because the go-to-market is muddled and the sales organization is, is muddled after the merger, you know, after the merger happens.”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:27 a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Levine: Bottom-up virality is a head fake without direct enterprise sales
“It's sort of a head fake when, you know, the best products, the products with this unbelievably great product market fit from day zero with freemium start to take off. And the assumption is like, oh, well, look at here. We don't need a sales organization. Let'…”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:19 a16z Podcast | Pricing Free
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