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THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

HEADLINES & TRENDS

TLDR Founders

DO YOU NEED A GTM ENGINEER?

A GTM engineer focuses on optimizing and strategizing go-to-market systems, leveraging tools like Clay and Unify. Arda's founder, Kyle Henson, shares that hiring this role arose from a pipeline failure when one key employee was on leave, highlighting the need for a systematic approach. Candidates underwent practical challenges without clear instructions, allowing them to demonstrate problem-solving and initiative, ensuring they're more than just order-takers.

THE 0% QUOTA CLUB (AND WHY THE SAME MEDIOCRE REP HITS 70% AT ONE COMPANY AND 0% AT YOURS)

In surveys, only 18% of early-stage teams had 70%+ of their reps hitting quota, and a majority were sitting at 20% to 40% attainment or worse. Inside those averages was a group of reps who closed essentially nothing all year. Mediocre reps are an output of the system, not an input. Companies need extreme product-market fit, tight processes, and substantial support for reps to succeed.

NOTES ON BUILDING PRODUCTS PEOPLE LOVE WHEN SOFTWARE GETS CHEAP

Meta treats the rest of the consumer internet like a giant external product lab. It understands what gets people to create, share, connect, consume, come back, and generally spend more time with their products. When other companies spend years and a bunch of money and discover a new behavior that people clearly like, Meta takes notice. Every software company is going to need to get much better at doing some version of this as software is becoming too easy to build. A lot of software scarcity used to come from implementation, but that is changing fast.

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