Sales Org
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Moreno: Unstandardized sales reps make enterprise revenue forecasting impossible at scale
“I think if you have a bunch of people that are all really good at problem solving, but all do it in silos or do it in different ways, then when you go to create predictability in the business, there's not actually really a baseline to be forecasting off of bec…”
Chad Peet: Leaving at 2:30 PM daily won't work in sales unless reps return
“If you tell me five days a week you gotta leave the office at two 30 to pick your kid up from school, that is not gonna work. Unless you're gonna go pick your kid up from two 30, bring him home and come back to the office, say, alright, I can live with that.”
Founders cannot effectively scale a sales organization without first selling themselves
“There's no way you'll be able to
Manage and make that sales org work if you don't learn how to sell yourself.”
Jackson: Cursor Sales Team Builds Internal Tools Using Cursor
“Many people in our sales org are also building tools to help the sales org using cursor.”
Herzberg: Wiz moved its field marketing organization to report to sales
“Today, in Wiz, the marketing team is actually structured untraditionally. So, like, about a year ago, I actually split the marketing org so that the field marketing org is under the sales org. Because to me, it's so attached to regional and to sales, and it's …”
Singer: Basecamp had no sales or marketing orgs competing for engineering time
“Imagine you have no sales org. You have no marketing. That all of sales, sales, selling and marketing is happening by the unicorn founders. So it means that there isn't contention for engineering time, that there isn't kind of like all these different sources …”
Padelford: Sales teams follow power laws; companies mistakenly just add headcount
“Most businesses that I've seen and most sales orgs that I've seen Almost always fall under a power law. Which is most of the business is being driven by a small number of people. And yet the company continues to add headcount and spread it out. And it's just s…”