> How did the salesperson contribute > to building the product? I've worked at several companies where we've sold things we hadn't yet built in order to fi

> How did the salesperson contribute > to building the product? I've worked at several companies where we've sold things we hadn't yet built in order to finance building them, generally with the client's knowledge. I note as well that Uber was selling rides quite a time before they had any kind of real engineering backend.