Delatorre: Former Oracle salespeople performed poorly at MongoDB
Carlos Delatorre · Scaling Your Startup 10x From $20M to $200M with Sapphire, Lightspeed, TripActions, and 6Sense · Jan 27, 2022 · at 12:41
Carlos Delatorre, former CRO at MongoDB and CRO at TripActions, discusses sales talent performance from legacy tech incumbents.
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“So at MongoDB, the sales team Oracle people did really poorly for the most part.”
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