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by joshea 2055 days ago
Sounds like you've never done it.
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Never done what? I’ve never worked in sales if that is what you mean. Not sure how that’s relevant.
Oh, sorry. I meant ran a startup. You're right, it's not relevant.
So you’re saying the only thing that matters at a startup is sales?
Certainly not. I'm just saying that sales is probably a bigger factor than you think. I'm going to assume that you're an engineer. Tech alone doesn't make a business successful. More so than not it makes a business fail. I agree that the statement "Everything about a startup is sales" is exaggerated. Although, I will say that good sales outweighs good tech the majority of the time. It baffles me that people don't recognize that.
I’m an executive at a fortune 100 company. The article/post was sloppily written.
Fortune 100 is not a startup. It’s a giant wheel where 95% of the workforce is pretending they are doing something, including executives.