TeacherTurnedSalesman

Former teacher, now completed the Cybersecurity SDR ➡️ AE journey in 10 months.
Here to learn, connect and share insights - no course to sell you.

[TeacherTurnedSalesman @Teacher2Sales]

@levelsio How do you deal with creatine induced excessive bowel movements when taking 10g daily? Been trying to find a way.

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@FidelCacheFlow Buyer

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@levelsio @fireship_dev As a normie who vibe codes his own apps, I have to agree. Build a proper moat or get raided by the savage hordes.

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@levelsio Do you believe there's now an open door for non-technical people to build niche apps/soft that find a market? As in, people with expertise in X field who couldn't create anything before AI due to inability to code.

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@coldemailchris Yes

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@TechSalesGuy Respectfully disagree a bit with some of these:

Salesforce great on paper but too rigid. Hubspot easier to use daily, Attio maybe best bet.

Gong is great but not worth the premium vs alternatives.

For sequences, Apollo or Lemlist are superior today.

SN is shit but required.

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@MichLieben Send

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@AlfieJCarter @yanndine Cowork

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@mikutechsales Plus imagine how low your cortisol would be with a 80% win rate on your deals.

[TeacherTurnedSalesman @Teacher2Sales]

@mikutechsales Starting next week so we will see. So far they seem way better organised. Fingers crossed!

As for my previous company, Revolut, not PE but it's a well-known meat grinder and the sales org is an absolute clown fest.

Happy where you currently are?

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Got an offer on the table

Would you:

A) Remain a full-cycle AE at a small cyber scale-up that's not having a great year but where you're valued and stable. Chill.

B) Move to SMB AE role at a huge fintech unicorn making 40% more but probs fired after a bad Q. High Stress.

[TeacherTurnedSalesman @Teacher2Sales]

@mikutechsales Pretty much sums up my experience!

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@mikutechsales In short, what they promised wasn't real. 250 'AEs' fighting for the same territory, zero tools, massive QC oversight (informing cold calls are being recorded, only allowing to call public numbers, cold email banned, LinkedIn too). Stay away from a certain 75B valuation Fintech.

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@mikutechsales Embraced the risk and it backfired like hell, a company run by turboautists. Now back in the startup Cybersecurity circuit but managed to maintain my base. Thanks for asking ser.

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@yanndine GTM

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@levelsio Quite valid from my limited experience in PT, but why would you say the data is so different for Spain when mostly everything you've said applies too?

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@THArrowOfApollo Code

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@MichLieben Claude code

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@yanndine Claude

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@Bowtiedplayer Gen Z looksmaxxers

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@kylianmbappe @BowTiedSalesGuy It's a website called https://t.co/NscpG4YXST where you can upload PDFs and similar material and it creates a visual novel for you with the content. So far, only waifu geeky stuff but fun to test!

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Studying @BowTiedSalesGuy 's course once again, but this time with a twist...