We Only Hire the Best

Re:We Only Hire the Best by jrs235 on Monday May 23, 2016 @01:44PM (#11755461)

This $5 Billion Software Company Has No Sales Staff

Atlassian sold $320 million worth of business software last year without a single sales employee. Everyone else in the industry noticed.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/this-5-bil...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Only Hire the Best by strictnein on Monday May 23, 2016 @02:34PM (#11755837)

They have sales people.

They just recycle this same story every year and get tons of press for it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Only Hire the Best by thedaveoflife on Monday May 23, 2016 @06:00PM (#11757400)

Depends how you define "sales staff". They need to sell their product in order to make money and they certainly have employees who provide a conduit for customers to buy JIRA.

Their sales costs are low, but maybe not having more sale people is negatively affecting revenue growth?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Only Hire the Best by vonmoltke on Monday May 23, 2016 @02:48PM (#11755923)

A single anecdote disproves "rare"?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Only Hire the Best by st3v3r on Monday May 23, 2016 @02:20PM (#11755740)

Good for them. How many other companies have tried the same thing and failed?

[ Parent | on HN ]