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by agcat 1y ago
Yeah the downside is huge. I hope there was a way to reward engineering teams too for sales commission.. have you come across any company that doso?
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by agcat 1y ago
Sorry did not get who are these people who deal with the front line grunt work? Support/engineers?
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by agcat 1y ago
Interesting. Curious to learn more about this aspect of self actualisation of salespeople is worthless?
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by agcat 1y ago
That’s so dull. Why to create competition?
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by agcat 1y ago
I agree. What are some common behavioural aspect/traits that you observed in these salespeople/team that made them so great?
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by agcat 1y ago
But has it ever happened that some salesperson who was genuinely authentic and just doing her job made you feel otherwise? And you did not hate them while they were doing their job?
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by agcat 1y ago
Yeah I have seen this. I hope there were better ways to restrict this from happening
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by agcat 1y ago
That’s a fair question. What I have seen is that engineers are rewarded way more in equity than salespeople. Is that true?
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Ask HN: Why do engineers hate salespeople?
4 points by agcat 1y ago|27 comments
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by agcat 1y ago
If you are starting from scratch getting warm intros need a "prep" phase. The best people to introduce you to investors are founders itself. You should build authentic connections with founders, try to help them.. in terms of your
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The Underestimated(aishwaryagoel.com)
1 points by agcat 1y ago|0 comments
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GPU Snapshots to reduce ML coldstarts(nilesh-agarwal.com)
2 points by agcat 1y ago|0 comments
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by agcat 1y ago
Yes
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by agcat 1y ago
I never heard about 4chan before
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by agcat 1y ago
Self promotion is understandable. But the core message in this is that people calling their past choices as strategy on why they did what they did instead of accepting that it was because of constraints, luck or just the situation. Often th
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by agcat 1y ago
Haha this is hilarious
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by agcat 1y ago
Bearblog discovery feed as well
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by agcat 1y ago
It’s fine if people keep it to themselves.. it hurts when they state these assumptions as facts which is a wrong advise for people
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by agcat 1y ago
I was curious to learn about how they do what they do. Not promoting or demoting their products here. I generally mention things I read as part of footnote
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by agcat 1y ago
That’s a good suggestion. I am going to check out this book
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by agcat 1y ago
How?
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by agcat 1y ago
I agree. I write 70% of it and then Claude helps me refine it by enhancing vocab, structure and grammar. Ideally I would like to just use it fix grammar but atleast this way I am writing more and my drafts just don’t sit in notes.
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by agcat 1y ago
And use social media to say it out loud
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by agcat 1y ago
Do we have an alternative?
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by agcat 1y ago
Yes! I follow bearblog discover feed. That's also quite good
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by agcat 1y ago
I learnt its called - cognitive dissonance
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by agcat 1y ago
I agree. But I have learnt that it's important to get your work recognized too. Unfortunately, the algorithms doesn't relate to that much rather than just clickbaits.
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by agcat 1y ago
Have you found any social medium on internet that actually empowers honesty?
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by agcat 1y ago
I learnt people even put wrong revenue numbers or what not
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by agcat 1y ago
Yes that’s the point I was trying to make. These lies don’t just affect them but also the people reading it as they might never see what actually happens

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