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0:00Can I show you the highest value comment on Hacker News that I've ever seen?

0:06Yeah, that has a lot of weight.

0:07I feel like I can rule the world.

0:09I know I could be what I want to.

0:12I put my all in it like my days off on the road.

0:15Let's travel.

0:16This is from like years and years ago, but it's this comment about sales because Hacker News is full of engineers and they're like, hey, like, you know, I stuck at sales.

0:24Anybody can help me get better at this.

0:26And this guy wrote seven points and I just nodded my head so vigorously that my C4, C5 is a little sore.

0:33So let me just give you this here.

0:34He said the guy goes, yeah, there's tons of resources to help you with sales, but I'll start with, I'll try to offer some simple tips.

0:39Number one, sales is a lot like golf.

0:42You can make it so complicated that it's almost impossible, or you could simply walk up and hit the ball.

0:47I've been leading sales orgs for about 20 years.

0:49My advice is to walk up and hit the ball.

0:51Number two, sales is about people and it's about problem solving.

0:54It's not about tech or solutions or chemicals or lines of code or artichokes.

0:58It's about people.

0:58It's about solving problems.