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Porter predicts the digital sales system of record will replace traditional CRMs.
“Companies will have a digital sales you know, application of record, and, you know, that's not going to be the CRM because the CRM is really an enterprise database, but that digital sales application of record will cover all revenue activities from the top of …”
Porter claims startups betting heavily on AI for sales have mostly failed.
“You've seen a lot of companies that have really bet on AI for sales really heavily. You see a lot of marketing from them. You see less results and those companies have petered out or, you know, not really, you know, made a big impact.”
Porter shut down SalesLoft's initial product despite hitting $7.5M in revenue.
“We were leveraging data that existed on social media to help companies generate lists of contacts to communicate with. And we knew from the beginning that this wasn't the long-term play for us, but it went from zero to four million in less than two years. And …”
Porter jokes VCs constantly claim AI in sales is two years away.
“If you go back to every, you know, time we've sat in an investor's office and raised a round of capital, you know, going back five, six years ago, the investors would say something along the lines of, you know, AI is not here right now for sales, but it will b…”
Porter notes total sales tech spending now exceeds $300 monthly per rep.
“I've heard that number has gone up dramatically over the last few years, and I've seen north of 300 per month per revenue.”
Porter says SalesLoft sales cycles shortened 35% during the COVID-19 transition.
“So we saw sales cycles reduced by 35%.”
Porter outlines SalesLoft deployment times from startups to large enterprises.
“And so it ranges from, you know, we can get a emerging company up and running and day, you know, a day or two enterprise can sometimes take six months if they're doing, you know, big integrations and stuff.”