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by 1differential 1101 days ago
Early in my career, I wanted to try one of SF's sales bootcamps because my idiot uncle was making > 400k in BD @microsoft. I was in my early twenties and all I saw was him wining & dining and making a lot of money doing it. Well for some reason, the sales bootcamp camp called a BD rep from a startup I was working at, and it turned out this guy and I didn't see eye to eye so he tanks my reputation to the bootcamp and I didn't get to move forward. I ended up having a nice career in tech over the last 15 years, I'm currently a staff engineer and interviewing for roles from senior staff to CTO level of startups but some part of me always wonders what if I was able to successfully pivot into sales...