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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 2025-04-04 · 69 min · 14,153 words

20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox

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Will sales teams be dramatically smaller in the future? Yes. Dramatically smaller. It could be ten to twenty percent of current kind of arc sizes. Sales is a power law. The top ten percent bring in ninety percent of the revenue. Do you think we have a generation of salespeople who are not ready for the challenging nature of sales that is to come? Yes. We had it relatively easy the past four to five years, and I wanna be morbid, but

Things are hard. Winning is hard. It's hard hard work. This is twenty cells with me, Harry Stebbings. Twenty Cells is the monthly show where we sit down with the Best sales minds to discuss their tips and tactics. Today we sit down with Ishan Murkjee, co-founder and CEO of Rocks, a Sequoia Backed AI powered sales productivity platform. And before Rocks, Ishan was chief growth officer at New Relic. Where check this out. He scaled their self-serve business from zero to 100 million in ARR. Incredible story there. Prior to New Relic, he founded Pixie Labs, which New Relic acquired. And before that, he led product at Siri Knowledge Graph at Apple, Lattice Data, which was acquired by Apple, and Amazon Robotics. This was an incredibly granular and deep show. So get out the notebooks, and this is one to listen to a couple of times. But before we dive into the show today, if you're ready to leave rigid payment terms behind, Camp Chase is here to change the game. Camp Chase brings B2C buying convenience to B2B software and hardware purchases. Camp Chase offers your buyers the flexibility they demand on annual and multi-year contracts, while you get paid upfront every time. This means faster.

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