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0 pointsTeMPOraL6y ago0 comments

Also: most people here probably experienced having to rush some features or deliver facades, because sales team managed to sell something that doesn't even exist in the product, and it needs to be demoed next month.

Given that, consider that when a salesperson from some vendor visits you, they're not likely to be accurate in describing their wares either.

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aidenn06y ago

Ah yes the "I heard someone say in some internal meeting that this might be possible to do, so I'll sell it" move.

TeMPOraLOP6y ago

Yes. Also, "I base my understanding of the product on the bullshit some other sales team wrote for the company page two pivots ago" trick. Or, "a thousand or a billion, it's all the same, who counts all these zeros (and what's that 'scalability' word you keep using?)" move.

aidenn06y ago

"I base my understanding of the product on the bullshit some other sales team wrote for the company page two pivots ago"

is slightly more forgivable than the other things, particularly if you change "sales team wrote" to "marketing team wrote". In a company with more than one or two products it gets very hard to keep track of what a company actually sells, and the marketing material is at least theoretically a customer-consumable list of that.

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0 pointsTeMPOraL6y ago0 comments

Given that, consider that when a salesperson from some vendor visits you, they're not likely to be accurate in describing their wares either.

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aidenn06y ago

Ah yes the "I heard someone say in some internal meeting that this might be possible to do, so I'll sell it" move.

TeMPOraLOP6y ago

aidenn06y ago

"I base my understanding of the product on the bullshit some other sales team wrote for the company page two pivots ago"

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