You need to understand that you are probably 2-3 months away from changing the trajectory of your life forever
Head down for 2-3 months and the results will be great, but what's even greater is the type of person you end up becoming
There is a big difference between a person that can go head down for 2-3 months and a person that can't
The only way to be that person is to do it. You have nothing to lose. Literally nothing to lose
All to gain.
If I was a founder for a Seed - Series B company, I would do my best to partner up w/ 2 or 3 of the best recruiting firms possible
The recruiting world is by far the most competitive it has ever been
Every single exciting startup has half a dozen or more recruiting firms helping them get good talent. YOUR COMPETITORS are working w/ recruiting firms
To get the best people possible across sales, engineering, deployment, and ops, you need a 3rd party helping you find and sell people to join you
The flashy ARR growth, VC names, and marketing can only go so far in getting people interested in your company
It's a blood bath out there in recruiting right now and good firms can really help you
Nice lil series A investment from Eric Schmidt
I think companies should be forced to go public way earlier so that avg investors can benefit from getting in early
I know a lot of this side of X would have 10000% invested in Anthropic/OpenAI/Cursor if we had the chance
The brutal truth about Tech Sales is that a lot of your success is going to be due to luck
W/ that said, there are many ways to increase your chances of getting lucky
Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation.
Seven years ago, Karim and I wrote our mission on a Post-it: “Save companies time and money.”
Our mission hasn't changed. It’s just gotten bigger.
Truly unreal outcomes for many early joiners at these startups
Many sellers took risks and joined these start-ups
Ended up w/ a job on easy mode, turned into order takers, and got a big ol' bag of equity to go w/ it
The true dream of Silicon Valley for sellers
Hindsight is 20/20. It wasn't obvious at the time
But truly staggering outcomes
Chatted w/ someone at one of the top AI native app layer companies yesterday
Enterprise AE
Closed $900k last month. I forgot exactly what his quota was, but it was barely $1m bc of a ramp number
I asked him what percentage of the team will hit quota
He sort of chuckled and said, "yeah nobody will miss their number"
Timing Timing Timing
It pays to be tapped into the space
Go find a recruiter that knows what they are doing
Action over anything
Pick up the phone, post the content, make the cold call
Put the podcast down, stop listening about what you should and need to do
Start acting
@BrianLaManna_ grass not always greener, if ur making 500k-1m/yr as a seller
probs shouldn't leave
- Coming from someone that recruits for these shiny ai natives
@gtmba_@natolisnuggets Must boil down to culture & wlb
Grinding super hard all of a sudden w/ a boss and maybe coworkers that they don’t like
Easy to bounce and go back to join some people that they r familiar with