Thoughts on tech sales? Cushy gig with high reward?

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Blows my mind looking at some of sales guys’ OTEs at my series C SaaS company. They work 35-40 hours a week, get steady lead flow from demand gen and make $200k/year. Wild stuff

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It still is - I’m in StratOps at a non-FAANG enterprise tech sales (cloud infrastructure) company and I’ve seen single deal commissions payouts for $300K+ ... and top performers can close 3+ deals like this in a year ... but that’s maybe the top 3% of sellers.

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Sales is not easy but if you are good it is very rewarding.

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On the not easy note microsoft and databricks probably spent 2 years trying to get me to buy stuff before I actually did. And I was a willing buyer. Significant politics involved when dealing with large orgs.

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Harder than you might think. Big rewards though

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Tech sales at startups can be very lucrative. Consulting isn’t going anywhere you could give it a try. Dating a guy now who has a base of $150 & $100k ramp (started a new job) — enterprise sales.

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