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One common driver of headcount is enterprise sales and support. Once you charge at least $75,000/year, you need to put salespeople on planes, you need to provid
by ekidd 4y ago
One common driver of headcount is enterprise sales and support. Once you charge at least $75,000/year, you need to put salespeople on planes, you need to provide actual tech support, and (unless you're disciplined and lucky) you end up with hundreds of features that are only used by one or two big customers each.
Enterprise software is fundamentally a whole different beast. Customers will write big checks, but they expect a lot of different things in return for that money.
I don't know whether this applies to DocuSign.
- cogman10 4y agoYou've described my company to a T. We aren't even that big and our customer service, sales, and marketing department make up about 80% of our workforce (even though we are SAAS).