Deloitte partners carry a $25 million annual quota, says Crespo
Eleonore Crespo · Goodbye Excel? AI Agents for Self-Driving Finance – Pigment CEO · Sep 11, 2025 · at 1:02:29
Eléonore Crespo is Co-CEO of Pigment. She contrasts the high revenue requirements of GSI partners with typical enterprise software sales quotas.
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“For instance, I was with a Deloitte partner, and they were telling me, for them, their yearly so-called quota is twenty-five million. And for those who don't know, in enterprise software, the quota is more between one and two million if you're lucky, right?”
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