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Stripe's Chief Business Officer on building a written sales operating model (leads, conversion, deal size, win rate, cycle) so you can diagnose whether a miss is the rep or the model. The missing step in most handoffs.

How to train and measure your startup's early sales hires

From SignalFire by Sadasia McCutchen with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser 14 min read

  • Building a working outbound capability takes a minimum of two years, and the median SaaS startup needs 33 months to reach 1M ARR.
  • A rep averages about 4.4 real customer conversations a day, so plan pipeline math off that.
  • Stripe paid early sellers higher equity with lower bonus and OTE, against a shared team quota.
  • The bar for product depth: a PM or engineer should need 10 minutes to notice the person is not on the product team.
  • Early sales hires are part revenue and part R&D, so treat them as a product insight channel.
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Answers When do I stop selling myself and hire my first salesperson? What should a new rep's first 90 days actually look like? I am the first AE and my founder still runs half the deals. How do we split it? How do I know whether a new rep is going to work out before six months have gone by? One of my reps is at 40 percent of quota. How do I move fast without wrecking the rest of the team? How do I actually get out of founder-led sales instead of just talking about it? What does a genuinely elite onboarding and ramp program look like, and what does it buy you?
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