Engineering Founders

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Sales founders learn markets are uncontrollable earlier than engineering founders
“I think that sales or go-to-market founders often have this intuition earlier than engineering founders do is that markets and what people actually want are in many ways out of your control.”
Ankur Goyal Jul 24, 2025 ▶ 16:55 What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
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Akhund: Technical founders succeed at sales by treating it as a numbers game
“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…”
Immad Akhund Nov 14, 2023 ▶ 29:47 Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund

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