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onboarding an engineer - even a great one - is notoriously expensive, because they need to understand the product in extreme detail that a salesperson never wil
by leeoniya 9y ago
onboarding an engineer - even a great one - is notoriously expensive, because they need to understand the product in extreme detail that a salesperson never will - not even close.
there are many good engineers, but they are very difficult to replace. in addition, more engineers does not always translate to faster delivery, so there is a natural limit to how many should exist to build out a specific product.
there are also many good salespeople and they can be trained in much less time and there can be many more of them.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> there are many good engineers, but they are very difficult to replace These engineers tend to find themselves well compensated. They aren’t representative of most coders in the Valley. Similarly with salespeople, you have lots of meagrely-compensated glorified customer service people and then people with difficult-to-replace relationships.
- goatherders 9y agoNo, there aren't many good sales people. No, they can't be trained in much less time. And no, there aren't necessarily more of them. This is probably the most "I'm a technical founder and I have something to say!" thread I've seen here in a while.
- hohenheim 9y agoNeither you, or your parent comment, provided justification. "There are many good sales people", "There aren't many good sales people". Plain statements, little reasoning. Both worthless.