sales

5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 21, 2018 by Tyler Cowen · across every show →

Everything said about sales, oldest first

Aug 21, 2018 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cowen: Computers will not replace sales, marketing, or management anytime soon
“So there's always room for sales, for marketing, for management, including in the distant future. Computers will not be doing that for us anytime soon.”
Tyler Cowen Aug 21, 2018 ▶ 3:22 #39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
Aug 8, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Snowflake grants special equity awards for landing high-priority customer accounts
“We, for example, we have equity awards in, in sales for people that are landing designated customers that we desperately want.”
Frank Slootman Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 25:05 Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better
Aug 8, 2023 positive
Insight
Companies achieve peak sales performance when every department supports sales
“You get much better sales organization when you have full alignment in the entire company so that everybody works, you know, for sales effectively. We always say that we're all working for sales here. Because they're the tip of the spear and the rest of us are…”
Frank Slootman Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 26:35 Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better
May 13, 2025 negative
Insight
Gil: Founders should not reinvent sales because the process is already solved
“Sales is like effectively process engineering that's been worked through for Decades, you don't need to go reinvent sales. You know, you just hire a sales team and it'll work just fine.”
Elad Gil May 13, 2025 ▶ 53:51 Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Oct 14, 2025 neutral
Insight
Cool: CEOs rarely have finance backgrounds compared to sales or operations
“Oftentimes CEOs are great operators. They usually have come from sales or marketing or operations. They seldom come from finance, and it's not usually the career trajectory”
Tracy Britt Cool Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 1:29:33 Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
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