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Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on moving the needle, win-first culture & managing burnout | E1689

This Week in Startups

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Is Your Product Needing a Brilliant Salesperson?

If the product that you have requires a brilliant sales person, you're already in trouble because there aren't very many brilliant salespeople in the world. If it's that hard to sell, I mean, we're going to run into a ton of friction trying to scale this business. The number one criteria that I look at in company is this velocity. When you don't have velocity, I don't care how good your story is. There is a problem here.

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