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by jshen 2055 days ago
Never done what? I’ve never worked in sales if that is what you mean. Not sure how that’s relevant.
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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.
I was replying to his condescending assumption, “ I'm going to assume that you're an engineer”

Sales is important, it’s not the only thing.

BTW, most startups are miny cults where employees are suckered into taking a pay cut to “change the world with disruptive blah blah blah”, and as you can see from the author of this post, the founders are just trying to line their pockets.