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15 Hard Takes on Sales, Startups, and Work 1. Founder liquidity while employees wait a decade is bullshit. If the company is healthy enough for founder liquidity, it should be healthy enough for employee liquidity too. Equity is just lottery tickets used to suppress salaries. 2. New sales reps are often easier to turn into killers than experienced ones. Experienced reps come with baggage. New reps are coachable. They ask better questions. They try things. They actually follow the process. 3. Most founders don’t actually like sales. So they hire salespeople too early, blame them when revenue stalls, and never learn how to sell themselves. 4. The best employees rarely stay the longest. The best ones: • grow faster • get recruited constantly • realize their leverage Your 10 yr tenure is a red flag not a green flag. 5. Most VCs are professional trend followers. They market themselves as visionaries. The real risk-takers are founders. VCs just write checks after the momentum shows up. 6. Salespeople don’t hate CRM. They hate stupid CRM work. Updating deal stages is fine. Entering the same information in five different places because RevOps built a bureaucratic monster? 7. The startup world massively over-glorifies founders. Yes, founding is hard. But so is: • carrying the sales quota • running customer support during chaos • fixing product disasters at 2am 8. Most “strategic advisors” add zero value. Real advisors create introductions, deals, customers, or talent. Everything else is decoration. 9. The majority of layoffs are leadership failures. Employees pay the price for executive optimism or delusion. 10. Burnout wins and American Startups Prove It. Grinding 80-hour weeks isn’t heroic. But it works. Sustainable companies don’t run on exhaustion. They run on clarity and execution and purpose. 11. A lot of “thought leaders” don’t actually operate anything. Check the resume of your favorite influencer and pay special attention to the ones with 7 jobs in the last 5 years. 12. Most startup compensation plans are designed to confuse employees. Equity terms are buried in legal language. Refresh grants are unclear. Strike prices change. By the time employees understand the economics, it’s too late. Confusion is not an accident. 13. Hiring “rockstars” is overrated. Rockstars are high variance. Great companies are built by reliable professionals who execute every day. 14. The biggest sales myth is that persuasion wins deals. Most deals are won through diagnosis. If the buyer truly understands their problem, the deal is halfway closed already. Most reps talk too much and diagnose too little. 15. The real career cheat code is proximity to power. Working close to the right: • founder • investor • operator • dealmaker One powerful relationship can change your career faster than ten years of grinding.

I’ve worked with 200+ SaaS companies. Every single one says the same thing about sales tools: “We just need one more application.” No you don’t. You need fewer tools and better thinking. I got early access to Nooks’ new AI sequencing platform this week, and the legacy sequencing tools should take heed. My honest reaction: It’s the first product I’ve seen that actually treats AI like a real partner. AI does the first pass. Humans make the final call. That sounds simple, but it’s not how most tools work. Most tools spit out garbage emails and hope reps send them. In Nooks, the AI drafts, researches, ranks accounts, suggests next moves and helps orchestrate them with AI sequencing.… then learns from the web, CRM data, past calls etc. what reps actually change and what actually engages prospects. That matters. Because the best reps I know don’t need simply more automation. They need better thinking, faster. And they need sequences that are driven by real account intelligence and buying signals. If you’re running an SDR team trying to get more pipeline from outbound… or an AE team drowning in tools… This is worth a look. Not hype. Just one of the first products that understands sales is still human. And yeah… I wish I had this when I was building teams from $0 to $25M ARR. Hell… who needs a CRO? Maybe I should get back in the game.

I own rental properties. A fair amount of them. Not because I love being a landlord. Not because real estate is great right now. Because I watched what happened to family, friends, colleagues and yes consultants who had one revenue stream when markets turned. Diversification isn't a finance bro word. It's a survival strategy. My real estate throws off income whether I close a consulting deal this month or not. That's the point. My network ask me all the time why I'm so calm about pipeline. This is part of the answer. Build your business. Build outside your business. Both matter.

You can't fake who you are forever. And the moment the mask comes off is when you will start experiencing real relationships. I'd just spent a week with 20 strangers in Costa Rica for The Surf and Sales Summit working hard to make it an amazing experience for all. Day One everyone showed up polished and professional. By Day Three people were exhausted from performing. They started admitting they were struggling. Started asking for help. They dropped the masks. And something very weird happened...that's exactly when people actually started connecting. We spend so much energy performing. At work. On social media. At dinner with friends. Home with family. On dates. Always showing the version of ourselves we think people want to see or deserve to see. And it's effing exhausting. And it doesn't work. Because people don't connect with your highlights. They connect with your honesty. In my experience the friendships that actually last start when you admit something real. When you say "I'm struggling" instead of "I'm great." Because nobody connects with perfect. But everyone connects with real.

The reason your sales hire failed has nothing to do with the rep. You hired someone great. Then you handed them a broken process, unclear ICP, no messaging, and said go figure it out. They couldn't. You called it a bad hire. That rep went somewhere with infrastructure and crushed it. Stop blaming talent for your leadership failures.

The entire go-to-market motion you built your career on is about to become obsolete and most founders have no idea it's happening. Buyers are using AI to research, score, and eliminate vendors before a single human interaction occurs. By the time your SDR sends that first email, the prospect already has a shortlist. You're either on it or you're invisible. The outreach didn't matter. Your digital presence, your point of view, your reputation in the market decided it weeks ago. The new pipeline isn't built in Salesforce. It's built in content, community, and credibility accumulated over years. Founders who spent the last decade hiding behind their product are about to get annihilated by founders who spent that same decade building an audience and a perspective. You don't need a better sequence. You need a reason for people to already trust you before the conversation starts. That's not a sales problem. It's an identity problem. And most of you are already behind.

The smartest rep I ever hired was the worst closer I ever hired. This man had an MBA from a top school. Knew the product inside out. Could explain every technical detail. And couldn't close an open door. I once sat in on a call of his. Prospect asked a simple question like "How does this help me?" And he launched into a SOTU length address and explanation. Features, integrations, architecture, use cases...The prospect's eyes glazed over and their soul left their body, I am certain of it. They politely said "interesting, send me some info" and got off the call asap. Shocker, it was crickets and ghosts after that. He would do this over and over. Every dang call, same dang thing. I tried everything to change this man. And that's the problem with people who are too dang smart. Smart people think complexity equals credibility. They think if they explain everything perfectly, the buyer will be impressed. But buyers don't want to be impressed. They want to be understood. So if you're the smart person on your team and not closing, now you know why. The video I made of me describing this has 1.5m views on Instagram right now. I think I struck a nerve.

What if I told you one of the largest CRM companies in the world… runs their own sales org on Excel. Yes. A CRM company. Selling CRM to the entire world. …runs their pipeline in spreadsheets. Tabs. Manual updates. “FINAL_final_v12_ACTUALLY_FINAL.xlsx” Forecasting meetings built off a file someone emailed 20 minutes before the call. Now before everyone starts asking which company it is… That’s not the point. The point is this: Most sales leaders are obsessed with buying software to fix a problem that is actually human. New CRM. New AI tool. New “revenue intelligence” platform. New forecasting tool. $500k later… Pipeline still sucks. Because tools don’t create discipline. Tools don’t create accountability. Tools don’t make someone pick up the phone. A great sales team could close deals with a whiteboard and a Google Sheet. A bad sales team will fail inside the most expensive tech stack money can buy. Here’s the uncomfortable truth most SaaS companies won’t say out loud: The CRM was never the thing making you successful. The people were. So the next time someone says “We just need a better CRM…” You might want to ask a different question. Do we actually need a better tool…or better sales acumen? And yes… before you ask… you definitely know the company. Tech is a distraction from what actually matters, knowing how to effing sell.

Everyone is chasing growth. More leads. More pipeline. More revenue. But the companies quietly printing money right now are obsessed with something else. Friction. Remove enough friction from a painful process and revenue becomes inevitable. This week alone I saw the same pattern in completely different industries. Private equity. Aviation. AI infrastructure. Rail operations. Sports facilities. Different worlds. Same problem. Too much friction. Private equity firms are duct-taping together investor portals, CRMs, accounting firms, marketing tools, and payment systems. Half the industry is exporting CSV files just to understand who invested in what. Aircraft records are still sitting in filing cabinets until someone tries to sell a plane and suddenly millions of dollars depend on paperwork that may or may not exist. AI systems are making autonomous decisions with ~69% accuracy and people are shocked when something breaks. The pattern is obvious. Markets don’t explode because of innovation. They explode when someone removes friction that everyone else has been tolerating for years. This is the entire playbook behind the next wave of billion-dollar companies. Not “AI wrappers.” Not growth hacks. Operating systems. Systems that replace messy human workflows with something clean. Think about the biggest companies of the last 20 years. Uber removed friction from getting a ride. Airbnb removed friction from booking places to stay. Stripe removed friction from accepting payments. The next wave is doing the same thing inside industries most people never think about. Fund administration. Compliance. AI safety. Infrastructure. Boring problems. Massive friction. Huge outcomes. And this applies to sales too. Everyone wants a new outbound trick. But great salespeople do something simpler. They find the friction. They name the friction. They quantify the cost of the friction. Then they remove it. That’s the whole game. Here’s the question I’ve been asking founders lately: Where is the most expensive friction in your customer’s world? Solve that and growth takes care of itself. Ignore it and you’ll spend the next five years chasing “pipeline.” One is a business. The other is a treadmill. And damn, aren't you tired of running yet?

Most sales coaches have never scaled a company past a few million in ARR. They got laid off, rebranded themselves as experts, and started charging founders $500 an hour to recycle content they read on LinkedIn. The industry has no licensing requirement. No accountability. No proof of work. So you've got nearly broke consultants teaching revenue strategy to founders with real money on the line and nobody talks about it like the problem it is. I am not mad at the coaches or consultants trying to make a living. I am mad at the founders who can't seem to figure out that somebody's string of half a dozen stints of sub one year in a row plus a great brand does not in fact bode well for the success of your company. Vet your coaches. Vet your advisors. Vet the voices in your ear.

I spent 20 years being really good at someone else's game, and I'll tell you why. Operator mode is seductive. You get the title. The comp. The bump in base every 18 months. You build something real inside someone else's walls and convince yourself that's enough. It's not enough. The shift from operator to owner isn't a career move. It's a complete identity demolition and rebuild from the ground up. Operators ask: what do I need to do today? Owners ask: what needs to exist that doesn't yet? Operators wait for direction. Owners create it and bleed when it's wrong. The hardest part isn't the financial risk. It's the silence. Nobody tells you what to do. Nobody grades your work. Nobody hands you a quota and dresses it up as purpose. You either build the muscle for that or you don't. Most people don't. Most people spend their entire career optimizing for the wrong scoreboard and retire wondering why it felt hollow. The ones who make the jump and survive don't do it because they were ready. Readiness is a myth operators tell themselves to justify staying comfortable. They do it because staying felt like slow death. I'm not here to convince you to make the move. You either feel that pull or you don't. But if you feel it and you're still waiting, that's not patience. That's fear with a good excuse.

If you want to fail fast, follow this summarized advice from one of the worst founder interviews I ever heard. Don't talk to customer. You built the product, you already know what they need. Just keep adding features and assume they'll buy. Hire the cheapest salesperson you can find. Don't pay for experience, just find someone willing to work for commission or sweat equity and hope. They'll figure it out. Skip onboarding. Your reps are smart, they'll learn by doing over anything else. Just throw them on the phones and see what happens. And go all in on AI outreach. Automate everything, let the bots send 1000s of emails, who cares if they sound robotic. Volume fixes everything and sales is a numbers game. Do all of THAT, and I promise you'll fail. Really fast. Or...here's a crazy alternative... Pay for real sales leadership. Onboard your team properly. Talk to your customers constantly. Use AI as a tool, not a replacement for human beings. But that takes time, money, and discipline. And too many founders would rather move fast and break things because they heard somebody say that one time on a podcast and it sounded cool. You might wanna slow down and build something that actually works instead. Too many do the first list and then they wonder why they're stuck. The fastest way to build a company is to stop doing the things that feel fast but aren't. I don't think founders fail from moving too slow. They fail from moving too fast in the wrong dang direction.

Zero deals. Then 17 in one month. Same product. Same team. Same market. One thing changed. We stopped talking about the product. I walked into a company drowning in feature soup. The founders had built something genuinely powerful. They knew every layer of it. Every edge case, every integration, every technical advantage over the competition. And they wanted to talk about all of it. Every sales call was a 47-slide product tour. Every demo was a live engineering deep-dive. Every pitch started with the roadmap. Prospects were nodding politely and disappearing. The founders kept saying the same thing: "We just need reps who can explain it better." No. You need reps who explain less. I sat down with the team and asked one question: What problem does a customer feel the morning they decide to finally buy something like this? Not the technical problem. The felt problem. The one that's been sitting in someone's chest for months. We found it. It was one sentence. We built the entire motion around that one sentence. We stopped leading with features. We stopped demoing the platform. We stopped explaining the architecture. We led with the pain. We confirmed they felt it. We showed them it went away. Seventeen deals in thirty days. The founders hated it at first. I get it. They spent years building those features. Every one of them matters. None of them are why someone buys. People buy freedom from a problem. Not a feature set. Early AEs and first sales hires: your job is not to present the product. Your job is to protect the buyer from the product until the moment they're ready for it. Founders: the feature that closes the deal is not your favorite feature. It's the one that maps to the buyer's worst day. Strip it down. Lead with pain. Watch the pipeline move.

Your agent is brutally scaling your mistakes. AI doesn't scale your business. It scales your mistakes. I talked to a founder last week who's sending 10,000 emails a month using AI. He was proud of it. I asked his reply rate. He didn't know. I asked if anyone complained. "A few unsubscribes, totally normal." I checked his brand mentions. People were posting screenshots of his emails on Twitter and roasting him publicly. His company had become a punchline. He claims he had no idea. This is the lie nobody in the AI space will say out loud because there's too much money being made selling you the tools: AI doesn't fix bad outreach. It industrializes it. Bad message plus AI equals 10,000 bad messages sent faster with better tracking of how badly they failed. You're not building pipeline. You're burning your reputation at scale while your dashboard shows green. The founders winning right now aren't the ones automating the most. They're the ones doing the most unscalable stuff. Targeted. Human. Specific. Impossible to ignore. Volume was never the answer. Not in 2015. Not now. The obsession with AI-powered "productivity" is just the latest version of the same broken thinking: that more activity covers for a weak message and a misunderstood buyer. It doesn't. It never did. Fix the message first. Then scale it. AI is a multiplier. And multiplying anything by zero still gets you zero.

This founder [me] once lost a $500K deal with one sentence. You're probably making the same mistake. Here's an example: Prospect asks: "So what does your product do?" Founder says: "We're an AI-powered platform that streamlines workflow automation for enterprise teams." Deal's dead. Not maybe dead. Not probably dead. Dead. Here's why: No pain. The prospect asked because they want to know if you understand their problem. You just recited your pitch deck instead. No value. "Streamlines workflow automation" means nothing. What actually changes for them? What stops hurting? You never said. No urgency. Nothing made waiting feel expensive. Nothing made them lean forward. You gave them every reason to say "send me some info" and disappear. Which is exactly what they did. Here's what should have come out of that founder's mouth [mine in 2012]: "Before I answer that, can I ask what's going on that made you take this call?" Then you shut up. You listen. You tie everything you say next directly to what they just told you. Pain first. Value second. Urgency third. Solution last. Every founder I've ever worked with wants to lead with the product. It feels natural. It feels safe. It's why they lose deals they should close. Answer out of order and you've already lost the deal before it started.

Sales success is no longer about tactics. New script. Better objection handling. Smarter CRM workflows. That's cute. The real formula: Effort. Work harder than you think is reasonable. Skill. Work better than you did yesterday. Strategy. Work smarter than the room. Do those three consistently and success stops being luck. It becomes math. But there is a cost, and nobody talks about the cost. The annihilation of your previous life is the price of the life you're about to live. One of the best compliments I've ever received came from someone who went through my process. He thought he was signing up to learn sales. Instead he said this: "Something happened to me at some point, and my world turned on its side. It was like a dam of fear, anger, stress, self-doubt, sadness, and unhappiness broke open and flooded out of me. Other feelings started to surface: hope, future, growth, providing, foothold, caring, family, teamwork, and feeling loved. I thought I was going to learn about sales and marketing, and instead I was deconstructing my mental, physical, and spiritual self." That's the work. Sales isn't about convincing strangers to buy. It's about confronting the parts of yourself that play small. The insecurity that makes you hesitate. The ego that keeps you from asking better questions. The fear that shows up right before you ask for the close. Effort builds discipline. Skill builds confidence. Strategy builds leverage. But transformation comes from burning down the version of you that can't win at the next level. Every rep I've seen break through had a moment like this. A personal reckoning. A decision that the old story was no longer acceptable. You don't rise into a new life. You shed into it. If you want the next level commission check, title, lifestyle, identity... ask yourself one question: What version of me has to die for that to exist? The journey to becoming a top 1% sales rep isn't a promotion. It's a reconstruction.

Your VP of Sales isn't underperforming. You are. Founders hire a VP, disappear into product, and expect revenue to materialize. Then at month six they fire the VP and tell their board it didn't work out. You never gave them your network. You never closed a deal alongside them. You never got on a call with a stuck enterprise prospect. You never made yourself available. You abdicated and called it delegation. That's not a sales leadership problem. That's a founder character problem.

Fine...I'll be honest. AI is not "scaling" your business. It's just making you annoying. Faster. So I start working with this founder who said they went all in on AI outreach. Something wild like 10,000 emails a month. Automated follow ups, personalized at scale. Automated comments on LinkedIn. Zero meetings booked. Decided email and LinkedIn don't work. So I told him let's try something different. Very different. We picked one prospect off his list and drove to their office. Scary? Sketchy? Debatable... But no email, no calendar invite...just showed up cold and got into a 20 minute conversation and a deal closed a few weeks later. Prospect said we were the first people to actually show up to their office in lord knows how long. Was it a F500 deal? No. Did it involve a decision committee, legal review, procurement, and whatever other obstacle course y'all are running out there...no. But that's not the point. Here's what I still think too many people are missing in sales about AI. It scales whatever you're already doing. Good of bad. So if your messaging sucks and isn't working, AI just helps you suck even more by aiding your output of sending bad messages to more people, faster. Everyone's optimizing for efficiency. Automating everything. Removing the human from every interaction. And people are exhausted by it already. A hundred emails a day in your inbox, all of them sounding exactly the same. Showing up might be the easiest dang way to stand out right now simply because nobody else is doing it. So yeah, use AI, but don't let it replace the one thing that actually closes deals. YOU. Because you can't automate presence, yet.

Founders are the worst salespeople for their own product. And it's not because they don't know it well enough, it's because they know it too well. Think about what happens when someone tries to sell their own house. They can't be objective about it because they see the memories, the upgrades, all the time and energy they poured into it, so in their head it's worth way more than it actually is. But the buyer walking through that door doesn't care about any of that, they see the cracked tile and the outdated kitchen and they're already thinking about what it's going to cost them to fix it. Too often, that's exactly what's happening when a founder tries to sell their own product. You're so obsessed with the features you built and the technical problems you solved that you walk into every sales call wanting the buyer to be as impressed with it as you are, so you over-explain, and then you start talking about the roadmap because you're excited about where it's going, and then you defend the gaps because you know you're going to fix them eventually, and by the time you're done the buyer is sitting there confused and unconvinced and you have no idea why. A real estate agent sells a house faster than the owner every single time because they're not emotionally attached to it, so they know exactly what the buyer actually cares about and they lead with that instead of everything else. That's what a good salesperson does for your product. So who cares if they're not as in love as you are with the product. They're not in love with what you built, they're in love with the problem it solves, and the opportunity it creates for them to create the kind of meaningful life they want to live. And that's exactly why they close deals you can't. So stop selling what you built and start selling what it fixes, or hire someone who isn't too in love with it to do that for you.

I've taken 6 companies past 25M ARR, from basically zero ARR as an operator. Every single one started the same way. Founder selling. No process. No messaging. No repeatable motion. Just hustle and hope. As you have heard before...Hope is not a sales strategy. What actually works is boring, simple, and almost nobody does it right: tight ICP, a message that lands, a process the next rep can follow on day one. That's it. That's the whole game at 0 to 25M. If you're still winging it at 2M ARR, you're not scaling. You're in trouble that you cannot see yet.

Most people are one algorithm change away from losing their entire business. And they'll have no idea until it happens to them. I built everything on LinkedIn for years, every single dollar I made came from this one platform, so I never felt like I needed anything else. And then the algorithm changed and my reach dropped overnight, and posts that used to get hundreds of thousands of views were suddenly getting hundreds, and I realized I had made a massive mistake because I had built my entire business on something I didn't control and couldn't protect. So I started posting on Instagram at 48 years old, not knowing anything about reels or trending sounds or whatever the hell was working on there, and what I found completely changed how I think about building an audience. Video builds trust in a way that text never will because people see you and hear you and feel like they already know you before they ever get on a call with you, and that's why I've closed more deals from Instagram in the last six months than I did from LinkedIn in the last year. The audience is there, they're ready to buy, and they're looking for people they feel genuinely connected to, but most people are too comfortable on the platform they already know to go find them elsewhere. I know, because I was too. So if your entire business lives on one platform right now, that's not a strategy, that's a risk, and the algorithm will remind you of that eventually.

The smartest rep I ever hired was the worst closer I ever hired. This man had an MBA from a top school. Knew the product inside out. Could explain every technical detail. And couldn't close an open door. I once sat in on a call of his. Prospect asked a simple question like "How does this help me?" And he launched into a SOTU length address and explanation. Features, integrations, architecture, use cases...The prospect's eyes glazed over and their soul left their body, I am certain of it. They politely said "interesting, send me some info" and got off the call asap. Shocker, it was crickets and ghosts after that. He would do this over and over. Every dang call, same dang thing. I tried everything to change this man. And that's the problem with people who are too dang smart. Smart people think complexity equals credibility. They think if they explain everything perfectly, the buyer will be impressed. But buyers don't want to be impressed. They want to be understood. So if you're the smart person on your team and not closing, now you know why. The video I made of me describing this has 1.5m views on Instagram right now. I think I struck a nerve.

The future of sales is going to destroy a lot of careers much faster than you believe, and arguing with those who believe it won't make it different. Not because AI is magic. Because the work was never that hard and companies only created those roles because they didn't want all reps to prospect. The reps who survive won't be the best at sequences or cadences or tools. They'll simply be the ones who can walk into a room, command trust immediately, and close deals without a script. Relationships. Presence. Credibility. You can't automate that [yet]. Start building it before the floor drops out.

Some of you are absolutely crazy. If I can't walk around my own house in board shorts and a t-shirt, it's too damn cold inside. 64 degrees is not a "comfortable temperature." 64 degrees is a threat. I grew up in the valley. I survived health issues that would have stopped most people cold. I have faced real adversity. Nothing prepared me for visiting someone's house in July and seeing my own breath in the living room. You are not saving money. You are running a haunted house. Crank it up or I will not "return to office." 🤭

Dude...did that really happen? Yes, it did. I closed a six-figure deal in an airport. The client had been watching me for two years. I didn't know he existed. Here's what happened: I'm walking through Dallas. Some guy stops me. "Scott Leese?" VP of Sales. Series B company. GTM completely broken. He'd been reading everything I posted for two years. Never liked a single post. Never commented. Never DM'd me. Complete silence. Two weeks after that conversation, he signed. Six figures. I had done nothing to close him. No outreach. No follow up. No nurture sequence. The content did everything. This is what most people get wrong about content. You're measuring likes, comments, and follower growth this month. When the numbers look flat you think it's not working. So you change your message. Chase trends. Post what you think people want to hear. And the moment you do that, you lose the people who were actually watching. I know, because I tried it. I've tried damn near everything here in the last 8+ years I've been writing content almost daily. That VP didn't need more content from me. He needed two years of the same consistent voice, the same point of view, the same unfiltered truth telling until the moment his pain got bad enough to act. You're not creating content for this quarter. You're creating it for the version of your future client who exists right now, watching silently, not ready yet, building a case for why you're the only person they'll call when they are. The real ROI is invisible until it isn't. Stop measuring content by this month's metrics. Tell your boss to kick rocks. Start measuring it by who's still watching when they're finally ready to buy.