Positive users congratulate the startup on hiring its first sales rep as a major milestone while negative users point to the heavy weight of expectations now on the new hire.
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increasingly this is what hiring will look like.
longer cycles, higher bars, a desire for cross-disciplinary experts.
we just made our first sales hire.
early engineer at twitter, ex-founder, has closed millions in revenue.
one of the best engineers i worked with at apple knew him. this is what he said:

@benhylak I actually wonder if there's a premium being paid right now for cross-disciplinary experts. e.g. "high agency sales people who can code AND hustle"
...or if the bar just got raised without a premium being applied for drastically more valuable skills

@benhylak Dude is now heavy with the weight of expectations

@benhylak also congrats on your first sales person! I would argue one of the most significant milestones in the journey ;-)