While I agree with you, I think sales is the most important job category besides engineering, and the usual problem is with the people who put themselves betwe

While I agree with you, I think sales is the most important job category besides engineering, and the usual problem is with the people who put themselves between sales and engineering. To know how important sales is, just see what is the most important talent to be paired with a programmer in a 2-person startup. The ratio of sales to engineering at the same time depends on the required growth / burn rate of the company, which depends on the interest rates. When interest rates go up, growth has to be sacrified to focus on survival / short term revenue generation without significant sales/marketing spend.