Tech sales peeps. What’s the average tenure for an account executive for a company? Is it around 2 years before people leave? Seems to be a lot of job hopping in tech sales.

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2.5-3 years.
Year 1 - build the territory.
Year 2 - crush it based on what you built.
Year 3 - get crushed by an unrealistic quota and look for the next gig.

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