“If you just hire one really good experienced engineer for half as much as for junior engineers. And then they can do more work like that.”
“Sales is very much an engineering problem… you need to build the systems to help give you leverage and automate such that you can create a ton of capacity.”
Max Freeman, Ramp · The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20Sales: Inside Ramp's Sales Playbook: How to Build a $1.7BN ARR Sales Machine with Max Freeman, SVP Sales @ Ramp
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argues that hiring engineers as founders who are not sales-savvy is okay if they are seller-friendly and provide engineering resources for the sales machine
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