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Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

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Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

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Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian employs many people whose job it is to be on the phone all day with potential customers. This is just marketing. Take it with a grain of salt.

https://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/head-of-sales-operatio...

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Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

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Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian employs many people whose job it is to be on the phone all day with potential customers. This is just marketing. Take it with a grain of salt.

Yeah, if they don't have a sales staff there are a ton of delusional people on linkedin who pop up for the search "Atlassian sales"

Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

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There are at least two kinds of sales but in this case there's "Order taking" versus "product pushing"....

Is the boasting about"no salespeople" suggesting that they do not do outbound sales I.e actively working to drive sales?

Either way, wearing "no salespeople" as a badge of honor seems misguided, only technical people would value that. A well run sales operation is a key component of a healthy company.

Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

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OFC they have, but;

Sales team means, people who try to sell product aggressively or try to convince you with calls, emails etc.

They dont need that kind of team. As they said, product already speaks for itself. They dont need to focus sales.

How many JIRA owners get a mail/call from Atlassian? For sale?

Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

#26

Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian has a sales staff. Atlassian employs many people whose job it is to be on the phone all day with potential customers. This is just marketing. Take it with a grain of salt.

What's with the hate?

Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

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OFC they have, but; Sales team means, people who try to sell product aggressively or try to convince you with calls, emails etc. They dont need that kind of team. As they said, product already speaks for itself. They dont need to focus sales. How many JIRA owners get a mail/call from Atlassian? For sale?

Sales team means different things to different companies. To you it means an aggressive person hunting you down, to me it means a consultative person to follow up a lead.

How many JIRA owners get a direct contact from Atlassian? Every one which is likely to turn into an enterprise client.

Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

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post #8

>Tesla doesn't have sales people, You go into an apple store, [and] they don't have sales people. God, I love these word games. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Product Specialists [0]. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Specialists [1] and Experts [2]. [0] https://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/careers/job/product-specia... [1] https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=USASP#&openJobId=USASP [2] https://jobs…

The true beauty of those word games is that they don't have to pay their salespeople commission, because they "aren't salespeople"

Re: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff

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post #8

>Tesla doesn't have sales people, You go into an apple store, [and] they don't have sales people. God, I love these word games. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Product Specialists [0]. Tesla doesn't have sales people; they have Specialists [1] and Experts [2]. [0] https://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/careers/job/product-specia... [1] https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=USASP#&openJobId=USASP [2] https://jobs…

Palantir doesn't have salespeople. They have forward deployed engineers.
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