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by Impossible 3816 days ago
I had a really bad experience where a Mixpanel salesman aggressively cold emailed me on my personal email (I'm guessing he got it through Linkedin?) and continued to do so even though I told him not to contact me multiple times and that I had no ability to make or influence purchasing decisions for analytics software. I understand hustling, but at the time it came off as really desperate.
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well it looks like his job was on the line
I always kind of chuckle when people assume a salesperson tracked down their personal email vs the much more likely scenario that you used it during a trial signup and just forget. At my company a customer's assistant demanded to know why we charged her bosses personal CC for a subscription because "he never uses that for work ever!" Smh...