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Making BDRs do lead research indicates a broken data model
“One of the things here is don't let your BDRs do lead research. Give them the leads and make sure, and if they say they need to do anything with them, it means your model's broken.”
Every Owner.com BDR generates over $60,000 in monthly closed ACV
“Every single month, every BDR on my team kicks out over 60,000 dollars in closed one ACV.”
Do not hire sales reps without 4 to 5 daily customer meetings
“Unless they've got like four customer meetings, five customer meetings on their calendar, every single day you don't need more reps. That's not your bottleneck. It's something else.”
Sales leaders should directly own customer onboarding
“I would strongly advocate that sales leaders should own onboarding.”
Owner.com fires bottom-ranked sales reps even if they near quota
“I move people out of the business that are, like, pretty close to quota. Like, they could be okay performers. I'll still exit them from the business if they're consistently at the bottom of the stack rank.”
Startups cannot scale headcount on friends-of-founder sales
“Your deals don't have to be massively repeatable, but they need to rhyme. You can't be winning friends of the founder deals and think that we're going to slam the gas on, on headcount and spend.”
Owner.com scaled from $3M to $20M ARR in two years
“We started at three. We're just passing 20 right now.”
Owner.com suffered 30% post-close churn in 2022 before resetting
“So I joined June, twenty-twenty-two, and massive inefficiency in the business, mostly driven by early churn. We were closing tons of deals. The sales number looked pretty good, but you know, rampant misalignment of customer fit, customer quality, the handoff, …”
Owner.com hit 2.5x growth with a sub-1.0 burn multiple in 2023
“So last year we grew two and a half X burn multiple under one four and a half to one LTV CAC.”
Owner.com rejected 40% of historically acceptable deals to fix churn
“We basically turned away 40% of closed ones that we would have closed 30 days before I got there.”
Average BDR teams waste 40% to 60% of time on bad leads
“If you look at the average BDR team, they're probably working between 40 and 60% of their leads that are irrelevant. Wrong contact data, wrong company, not the right, not quite the right profile.”