That 30 minutes in a corporate hotel room between the last conference session and dinner with your colleagues will have you questioning your entire existence
I asked Claude to build my daughter an app that plugs into our piano, can read live key strokes, can show her sheet notes and key view and ends with a Guitar Hero style game. All while giving progressively harder songs. Today she’s using It and crushing It.
am i sure the death star is going down? look at my quant. look at him! you notice anything different about him? look at his eyes. i’ll give you a hint—his name’s a fucking number!! he doesn’t even speak english—it’s all beep-boop shit!! yeah, i’m sure.
Most early-stage founders think that they're doing "enterprise sales" when they speak to any company with more than 250 employees.
True enterprise sales looks something like:
Day 1: first meeting (over Teams or WebEx) with 3 people with "analyst" or "associate" or "assistant" in their titles.
Day 25: second meeting. 14 people are in the call and you spend 25 minutes of the 45 minute meeting on intros. There are 11 associate district managers there for some reason? 9 of the 14 people have to "drop early" for another meeting.
Day 66: after 28 emails to get this meeting scheduled, it gets pushed out 2 months because Bill from legal is swamped and Terry is out of town.
Day 127: the SVP you need to meet with joins the call with 21 other people. She has zero context and you need to start from the top. Meeting goes well and follow ups are set.
Day 131: you see that the SVP you met just posted on LinkedIn that she's leaving the company, and you go back to the drawing board and restart the cycle.