Toast CRO Jonathan Vassell discusses how internal promotion mobility drives talent retention across Toast's sales organization.
Insight
Vassell: Distributed field sales requires software plus embedded payments unit economics
“There are other businesses that, or other verticals that don't have the density and that also don't have the unit economics. To get the payback that you need on a distributed workforce, right? We do because of the software plus embedded payments model, right? …”
Insight
Vassil: Smaller sales territories drive higher growth than broad ones
“What we know is the territory size you give the rep will dictate your growth rate, right? And so while we could have given our first rep the entire city of Seattle, We knew that'd be counterproductive going back to the density, right? And so the key is to, and…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vassil: Toast's marketing team drives the majority of its sales funnel
“A majority of our funnel is driven by our marketing team, you know, despite having folks on the ground.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vassil: Toast still has 85% of the restaurant market left to capture
“The TAM that we're servicing is one of the largest vertical TAMs in the world with Phil, you know, 85% of the market left to conquer or to tackle, and those opportunities are really, really unique.”
Insight
Vassell: Restaurants have higher rooftop density than any other vertical
“There is no other vertical that's, that has that many rooftops. In the U S or across the globe, right? So if you think about any city block, right in San Francisco or Miami or wherever it might be, you may have a pet store, you may have a drug store, right? Yo…”
Disclosure
Vassell: Toast inside sales reps have the exact same ARR quotas as field reps
“The quotas are no different, by the way, like that, that inside rep is still going to produce the requisite amount of ARR. As a field rep, they're just going to do it across a different geography.”