It’s the quarter end and you are in a meeting with your GTM leadership and one of your sales Directors makes a comment: “I think the deals are spending too much time Negotiating.” And a debate ensues on the validity of the comment. And then all eyes are on you – coz they all remember […]
When I published the last post, a business head at an early stage startup messaged to tell me he related to the problem firsthand. With that validation, this post is a natural extension to the last one. If you were a navigator surfing the oceans thousands of years ago, you would be guided by the […]
“We don’t have money to splurge on a ‘proper CRM’.” is the worst advice you will ever give yourself if you are a functional leader or a founder, if that is the answer is to “Why we don’t have enough data about our deals?” More often than not – it all comes down to execution […]
This is a technical post and will only be helpful if you are a Salesforce Admin/Developer. Please feel free skipping this post to check other business and tech posts. Problem Statement: You just closed your FY20 and are trying to assess how many sales engineers were part of the opportunity team and voila! You realize […]
The last I traveled was in Feb 2020 before covid was announced to be a pandemic and the nation-wide lockdown imposed. In the midst an important life event happened: marriage. But thanks to covid scare, it took us nearly eleven months after the last travel to venture out. Traveling on year-end when half of the […]
Last month we finally settled down (almost) in our new home. We just moved back to Bangalore. My wife is a Pedodontist – meaning she specializes in kids dentistry and was looking out for jobs in paediatric dentistry. I would have done disservice to her as a husband who’s operated in Ops for over eight […]
If you are a Tolkien fan, you most probably know what a Palantir is: an indestructible ball of crystal, used for communication and to see events in whether past or future. One of the story’s villains in The Lord of the Rings, the wizard Saruman, uses a palantir to surveil his enemies. And that exactly is the name of […]
One bold contract and six movies later – a director’s four billion dollar bet!
In June last year, the enterprise SaaS revenue hit $100 billion run rate (and hence the gif below – no pun intended :P) It closed 2019 at $141 billion. Nearly half the #market is controlled by just five orgs: Microsoft 17%Salesforce 12%Adobe 10%SAP 5%Oracle 5% If you thought the SaaS revenues are incredible – it is not just yet. SaaS has been maturing for over two […]
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