[billyhoffman]

Hire sales people 2 at a time. If you hire just 1, they will have an endless list of reasons they aren’t making sales (product doesn’t demo well, not enough marketing, bad leads, etc). sales will always say this, but with more than one, you can tell how real of an impediment to closing deals those actually are

[lemax]

This applies to nearly any team, you ideally always want to have 2+ people at similar levels competing for the promotion.