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by bradleyjg 1129 days ago
I think they’d be bad at it for the same reason google is bad it. Enterprise sales is not in their dna.
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The AI inference/training market is so competitive that I doubt enterprise sales is going to be the problem. A company planning on spending $50M training a model is not going to be convinced by some smooth talking sales guy over a golf game. They will look at the actual price/performance.
You’d be surprised. Azure is growing like gangbusters on the backs of smooth talking salesmen taking CTOs golfing.