“If you can find a way of taking 60% of your costs, which typically live in sales, marketing, customer support, take them down to 20%, you can be a 40% operating margin business.”

David Senra · Building a $250B Cybersecurity Giant | Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks

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targeted reducing sales, marketing, and customer support costs from 60% to 20% of total costs

60% to 20%

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