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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by leeoniya on Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:31PM (#15361632)
onboarding an engineer - even a great one - is notoriously expensive, because they need to understand the product in extreme detail that a salesperson never will - not even close.

there are many good engineers, but they are very difficult to replace. in addition, more engineers does not always translate to faster delivery, so there is a natural limit to how many should exist to build out a specific product.

there are also many good salespeople and they can be trained in much less time and there can be many more of them.

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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by goatherders on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:01AM (#15362803)
No, there aren't many good sales people. No, they can't be trained in much less time. And no, there aren't necessarily more of them.

This is probably the most "I'm a technical founder and I have something to say!" thread I've seen here in a while.

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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by hohenheim on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:47AM (#15363720)
Neither you, or your parent comment, provided justification. "There are many good sales people", "There aren't many good sales people". Plain statements, little reasoning. Both worthless.
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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday September 28, 2017 @10:26PM (#15362326)
> there are many good engineers, but they are very difficult to replace

These engineers tend to find themselves well compensated. They aren’t representative of most coders in the Valley. Similarly with salespeople, you have lots of meagrely-compensated glorified customer service people and then people with difficult-to-replace relationships.

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