Can you describe what professionally aggressive means in practice?

Ali Ghodsi
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Co-Founder & CEO at Databricks

Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. USD 583 Million/month
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Started: 2013

The first AE Ron hired, a guy named Dave, got us a meeting with a customer we could not get a meeting with. In that meeting the executive told us to get Dave out of the room and never bring him back. He had emailed the boss, the boss's boss, everyone in the building. After the meeting I confronted Dave and he said, Ron told me to get into the building. Nobody was responding. So I went through every door I could find. I got you the meeting. What are you complaining about? That was my education. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and in enterprise sales, if you are not willing to be professionally aggressive, you do not get the meeting.

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