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Funny to see how little value devs and engineers put on sales people. Enterprise software success depends highly on sales people. Startup success depends highl
by DwnVoteHoneyPot 4y ago
Funny to see how little value devs and engineers put on sales people. Enterprise software success depends highly on sales people. Startup success depends highly on marketing. At previous company, SAP flew the CEO and a few others to Monaco for the F1 race. Interesting to see we had SAP and PeopleSoft implemented at the company.
- lupire 4y agoWhy can't a computer program automatically buy tickets for F1 and send them to prospects?
- function_seven 4y agoHow will it determine who gets the tickets? And which event is the most appropriate one for a given prospect? How will it know that the prospect is interested in the first place? Or available? Or worth wooing in this manner?
- mattacular 4y agoIt could do that part. Making the decision about what to buy, how much of it, and for whom etc would be the types of non-trivial decisions you need your sales AI to make better than a person
- Spooky23 4y agoThe F1 tickets are about access. Your pal the sales dude buys you scotch and yaks about SAP.
- jdmdmdmdmd 4y agoYup. Devs like to think that sales people don't contribute real value and are basically just marketing, and that's true to a degree, but it's also true that sometimes the entire product doesn't contribute real value either. A senior dev building Uber/delivery clone #1745 run by VC funny money is "contributing" the same as a sales person, no matter how many frameworks and algorithms he uses. (Unless, of course, that algorithm is itself contributing to some efficiency in the deliveries.)
- floor2 4y agoSo the value the sales people provided was successfully bribing the executives. You're not exactly wrong here, but many that's a kinda hilarious example. AI doesn't yet know how to operate in the grey area of not-quite-illegal bribery.