Sean Murray
CRO, Greenhouse. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
He is the Chief Revenue Officer at Greenhouse. He previously held revenue leadership roles at Salesloft, Xactly, and CEB.
2shows
2appearances
38statements
5resolved
3supported
1contradicted
60%fully supported
Everything Sean Murray said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Enterprise Sellers Asking Basic Discovery Questions Will Fail
“If you are a seller today and you engage a potential buyer and you're wasting your time asking about what fucking CRM that they use or where they're located or who they do business with or how they make money, you're fucked. You just don't even call.”
Traditional Sales Discovery Is Dead and Replaced by Teaching Buyers
“Discovery as we know it is fucked, right? And what, when discovery, I took out the word discovery from the sales process and I inserted the word teaching. And words matter turns out. And what I would prefer my organization, what they do when they engage with a…”
Founders Should Not Build the Initial GTM Sales Playbook
“I would argue that that sheet music get created by a professional that has the pattern recognition that has seen it before. So I do not believe a founder should build that sheet music or playbook for how we're going to go to market.”
Greenhouse Caps Enterprise Sales Outreach at Companies Under 10,000 Employees
“A greenhouse where, where I'm building now, I'd really cap it. At 10,000 employees that I try not to pursue much more above that is mostly because it just gets so difficult above that threshold. And I don't think the big money really isn't with those companies…”
Female Sales Reps Outperform Male Counterparts by 8%
“According to Exactly Insights, those that identify as female outperform their male counterparts by eight percent.”
Half of Current Sales Leaders Will Fail Within Two Years
“Half the sales leaders probably are not, I'm going to make it in the next year or two.”
Gartner: Sellers Get Only 9% of Buyer Time During Inbound Deals
“When on an inbound lead to your business, the seller now gets nine percent of that buyer's time to evaluate whether they're going to go with you or not. And Harry, in that nine percent, this is according to Gartner, in that nine percent, you must split that ti…”
Greenhouse Holds Marketing as Accountable to Revenue as the CRO
“We do measure our marketers on the full suite of everything that I have measured with our marketing organization. We hold them as accountable to the revenue as I am.”
Combine CS and Account Management, but Separate New Logo Sales
“If I'm a founder right now, I would think about combining those roles a bit within CS and account management, but separate that from your new logo hunters, make sure that separate it.”
Heavy Customer Success Teams Signal Difficult Product Adoption to Buyers
“If you have a heavy people or human oriented customer success organization, Could be a red flag for the buyer.”
Brand Credibility, PMF, and Financial Trust Block Enterprise Software Scaling
“The three biggest hurdles in taking that holy grail of moving up into the enterprise, those massive ACBs, the sexy LTV to CAC, those sexy logos that you talk about, but the hardest problems. First, the credibility. No one knows who you are, especially in the e…”
The Worst Sales Deal Is One That Takes Too Long
“The worst deal is the one that takes too long. Drop your price and go get the fucking deal and move on. Just move on. Go get the next deal.”
Replace Underperforming Sales Reps Instead of Repairing Them
“The right answer is you move on and you bring in new talent.”
Murray Uses a Single National Pay Scale Based on High-Cost Cities
“The second lesson I've learned is I've moved to a national pay structure, right? So if I live in London if I live in New York City, if I live in Cleveland, Ohio. It's still the same job, right? You're still performing the same tasks. So that transparent standa…”
Best Practice Enterprise Sales Compensation Is a 5:1 Quota-to-Pay Ratio
“Best practice is a five to one ratio. So if I'm going to pay someone 200 pounds sterling, I want them to have a million quid as a goal or as a quota, right? So like thinking about what the what that ratio that you're willing to pay now in a startup, you may ha…”
AI Forecasting Technology Is Within 5% Accurate 90 Days Out
“There's technology today that's putting a lot more science using the machine learning into what's going to be the output, 90 days out. And frankly, on my new logo side, it's been within five percent accurate, 90 days out.”
Sales Friction Occurs Most With Product and Marketing
“Sadly it's product and marketing because salespeople they want a product that's applicable for everyone, right? So they complain about the product, which is wrong. And the second reason why sales wrong is on marketing. They want a fat pipeline of buyers that a…”
Enterprise Buyers Always Believe They Are Unique
“Because those big companies, they all believe that they're special snowflakes.”
Enterprise Clients Doubt Startup Financial Survival
“And third, your financial, because as you move up market, they just don't trust you. They don't trust that you can survive.”
CMOs Must Be Sellers and Sales Heads Must Be Marketers
“So the CMO, the marketer, must be very effective at selling and the head of sales must be very effective in marketing.”
Greenhouse Sees Strong New Logo Sales Despite Churn Pressure
“No. I'm personally, I'm experiencing the opposite where new logo sales are actually fairly strong and say some customer churn might be a little bit more difficult”
First Stage of Sales Process Across Three Companies Is Teaching
“And in fact, in my sales process internally, third company in a row, the first stage of the sales process is called teaching.”
Gartner: Digital-Only Buyers Suffer 1.65x Higher Purchase Regret Rate
“According to Gartner, Harry 43% of buyers, according to Gartner, 43% of buyers That had a digital only experience in purchasing have a 1.65 X higher regret rate, right?”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Sean's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 20VCLEDGER | CRO, Greenhouse | 1 | 38 | 60% 3/5 | full record on 20VC → |
 HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | 1 | 0 | — | full record on How I Built This → |