My best recommendation for Staffing your team is hire your first sales person after you’re doing about two pitches a day yourself or if you’re bad at it you’re burnt out whatever but if you like it like I love doing sales I genuinely love it hire your first person after you’re doing two proposals a day not two intro calls two actual proposals a day that’s when you want to fire your first AE in my opinion you’re gonna get a drop in close rates you’re gonna get a drop in Revenue when you do that you will be better than they are and you will have a title and a certain level of trust as the founder that they will never have
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