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Dahlgaard: Startups attempting to eliminate commission-based sales always revert
“And frankly, all of companies in Silicon Valley that we didn't have Salesforce up front and thought they could rethink it, have all come home to roost. And they now have great sales forces that sell with commission for a living.”
Dalgaard: Southwest's market cap equaled all other competitors combined after 20 years
“I believe strongly it's what Southwest Airlines did. They came into an industry where everybody said, there's monopoly. You can't do anything in this. What are you thinking? And 20 years later, their market cap was that of all the others combined.”
Dalgaard refused to hire or sell to personal friends for ten years
“You can't find any of my friends working for my company for the first decade, and you can't find any of our customers being any of my friends.”
Lars Dalgaard personally hired his company's first 800 employees
“No, no, I never, I always do my own, yeah, including every single person I hired, and I hired the first 800 people personally.”
Dalgaard pitched 73 venture capital firms that all rejected SuccessFactors
“We had the opportunity, or I personally did, to pitch to a 73 venture capitalists who all said no.”