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Sounds like you've never done it.
by joshea 6y ago
Sounds like you've never done it.
- jshen 6y agoNever done what? I’ve never worked in sales if that is what you mean. Not sure how that’s relevant.
- joshea 6y agoOh, sorry. I meant ran a startup. You're right, it's not relevant.
- jshen 6y agoSo you’re saying the only thing that matters at a startup is sales?
- joshea 6y agoCertainly not. I'm just saying that sales is probably a bigger factor than you think. I'm going to assume that you're an engineer. Tech alone doesn't make a business successful. More so than not it makes a business fail. I agree that the statement "Everything about a startup is sales" is exaggerated. Although, I will say that good sales outweighs good tech the majority of the time. It baffles me that people don't recognize that.
- jshen 6y agoI’m an executive at a fortune 100 company. The article/post was sloppily written.
- knuthsat 6y agoFortune 100 is not a startup. It’s a giant wheel where 95% of the workforce is pretending they are doing something, including executives.
- jshen 6y agoI was replying to his condescending assumption, “ I'm going to assume that you're an engineer” Sales is important, it’s not the only thing. BTW, most startups are miny cults where employees are suckered into taking a pay cut to “change the world with disruptive blah blah blah”, and as you can see from the author of this post, the founders are just trying to line their pockets.
- knuthsat 6y agoYes, startups are definitely like that. I was lucky to not work in those kinds of startups. What happened all the time is that I would look at competition and be surprised by their success. Their product would be extremely bad compared to ours. I would be surprised by the amount of missing features (that they still listed in their product sheets). They would close million dollar deals promising features that they barely or never delivered. But checking out their team, they would all be very experienced salesmen.