sales

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Aug 28, 2025 by Stéphan Donzé · across every show →

Everything said about sales, oldest first

Aug 28, 2025
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Donzé: Founders must manage every sales deal in zero-to-one phase
“The zero to one phase, in my case, but I think it should be the case for every company, all of the closings, all of the sales are done directly by the founder. You are in touch, you are involved in every single deal. Then the one to 10 phase, you start stickin…”
Stéphan Donzé Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 42:27 He Bootstrapped to $55M in Revenue—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. | Stéphan Donzé, F... · PMF Show
Nov 6, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Abbott: Amazon sales increased every single time delivery speeds were accelerated
“I mean, because I saw that power in Amazon and Amazon, every time we dial the speed down, our sales went up. There was never a time when we dialed our speeds down to say like, oh, could we do three day versus two and a half day versus two days versus one day. …”
Harish Abbott Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 9:47 He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Found... · PMF Show
Dec 8, 2025 negative
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Smith: Waiting for PLG to stall before building sales causes company whiplash
“And I think one of the very common mistakes Many of them made is they waited way too long to build out sales. And they built out sales only when they needed it because their PLG business started stalling out or whatever. And like, that is too late. Then you en…”
Jennifer Smith Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 54:13 Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder o... · PMF Show
Mar 26, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Goel: Accounting department attrition is among highest after sales
“And the attrition in the accounting department is one of the highest After sales because people just need to take health breaks and they just, they are done with this.”
Yogi Goel Mar 26, 2026 ▶ 33:12 He raised $41M in one year to replace enterprise accountants with AI. | Yogi Goel, Founder of Maxima · PMF Show
Jun 1, 2026
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Hughes: Cold outbound emails must aim for a reply, not closing a sale
“If you actually take the mindset of like, this message is to close this customer because I need my first customer. It's like, it's never going to work. So I felt like it was almost like putting too much detail and like why we're amazing. Whereas like the goal …”
Mark Hughes Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 25:54 He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughe... · PMF Show
Aug 31, 2026 neutral
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Antos: Sales and Marketing Make Startups Great, Not Viable
“As long as there's a way for them to discover, there's, like, some Basic level of discoverability and you're doing something that people really want, then it takes off. Right? And then I think like, and then if you're good at sales or good at marketing and goo…”
Andrew Antos Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 31:20 Sold $10M business to bet on a side app—grew it to $20M ARR | Within
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