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20VC Assertion Supported
Peets: Anthropic offered sales reps $1.2M compensation packages
“Like if Anthropic, for example, when they were at their three 80 valuation, they were offering reps, call it a 1,000,002.”
Chad Peets May 23, 2026 ▶ 49:25 Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Chad Peet: Fired sales reps in France and Germany stay on payroll for a year
“Go to Germany and France, I can't fire people. Like, dude, they're on, I, they'll be on the books for a year after you want to get rid of them.”
Chad Peets Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 32:52 20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
20VC Prediction Held up
Peets rejects sales reps unwilling to make a 30-minute commute
“If a sales inside salesperson is not willing to make the sacrifice of a 30 minute commute every day to further his own career, I don't want that person.”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 49:29 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Peets: Anthropic sales organization operates on group quotas rather than individual metrics
“They have a group quota.”
Chad Peets May 23, 2026 ▶ 25:48 Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Snowflake Grew Its Sales Organization Faster Than Any Company in History
“Chris and I took a sales organization and grew it faster than any sales organization has ever grown in history. It's snowflake. There might have been others since that have grown faster, but at the time, nobody's done that, right?”
Chad Peets Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 9:48 20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
20VC Assertion Supported
Chris Degnan Is the Only CRO to Scale From $0 to $3B
“Chris is the only guy that's ever gone from zero to three billion.”
Chad Peets Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 14:38 20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
20VC Assertion Supported
Chris Degnan is the only CRO to scale revenue $0 to $3B
“Chris is the only guy that's ever gone from zero to three billion.”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 12:23 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Chad Peets: Snowflake sales rep productivity rose continuously despite rapid hiring
“Snowflake was the first thing, first company we had ever seen where we couldn't hire fast enough to bring the productivity number down. No matter how fast we hired, it kept going up”
Chad Peets May 23, 2026 ▶ 35:26 Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Snowflake Scaled Without Having a Dedicated Customer Success Department
“They don't have a customer success organization at Snowflake, or at least they didn't. Maybe they've created one now, but they didn't. The feeling was everybody's in customer success.”
Chad Peets Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 29:29 20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
20VC Assertion Supported
Early Snowflake had no customer success organization
“They don't have a customer success organization at Snowflake, or at least they didn't. Maybe they've created one out, but they didn't. The feeling was everybody's in customer success.”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 28:21 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Snowflake Initially Could Only Sell Its Database to Ad-Tech Companies
“In the very early days of Snowflake, we could only sell into ad tech accounts. That's it. They were just selling to ad tech.”
Chad Peets Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 19:01 20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Snowflake initially sold exclusively to ad tech accounts
“In the very early days of Snowflake, we could only sell into ad tech accounts. That's it. They were just selling to ad tech.”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 17:03 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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