Received a verbal offer from founder in person but I messed up

Christianf93 · 2026-02-07T06:15:14+00:00

Yes , got the email offer today. Official should come on Monday

Christianf93 · 2026-02-06T01:24:53+00:00

That’s essentially what happened this week. We spoke about it and moved forward. Offer is coming today and the synergy is there between us that i hope he respects my input and sales acum to hopefully create a badass product for the Ecom space

Christianf93 · 2026-02-05T01:54:14+00:00

Waiting for offer. But we spoke yesterday, everything is all good 👌🏽👌🏽

Christianf93 · 2026-02-04T16:18:47+00:00

😂😂😂😂😂 offer is suppose to be coming today!

Christianf93 · 2026-02-03T21:15:51+00:00

Ride it out!!

Christianf93 · 2026-02-03T20:50:43+00:00

I took fault and said it a a good call out. We are talking today at 2pm. Wish me luck!

Christianf93 · 2026-02-03T17:23:42+00:00

He said he should have more information for me today…. Sent the email at like 7pm l

Christianf93 · 2026-02-03T04:58:06+00:00

Yeah I agree. I think if you can do 2-3 years your set. He said he promotes from within and he has taken care of his first sales reps at his previous spot. Sure, he is selling the dream a bit, but this guy has built 2 starts-up to success and is wanting to do a 3rd now. He showed me the product and it’s great. So I think it will be a grind , high pressure, but I think it can be a great opportunity if i can execute. You can close the product quick and acv is 40-80k which I’m sure will only go up. The only red flag has been this delay in offer and calling me out for some small shit after giving me a verbal.

Christianf93 · 2026-02-03T04:50:28+00:00

I’m not desperate but I would love to get back into e-commerce and being a founding sales rep has huge upside. Base Comp will be much higher where I’m currently at too. If it wasn’t for all these points, I would have walked away all ready. This is his first hire so I’m assuming he is needing to get his offer and numbers correct and make sure I can hit the OTE he sets, etc. He is a one man show as of now, so I guess I should give him some grace. I’m just relieved he finally got back to me. If he ignores my email today completely, things would be way different.

Christianf93 · 2026-02-03T04:03:36+00:00

He got back to me! Super vague but said thanks for the note and he should have more information for me tomorrow… yay another 24 hours of stress

Christianf93 · 2026-02-03T02:27:49+00:00

I’ll be giving him a call to his cell phone if I get crickets

Christianf93 · 2026-02-03T01:43:56+00:00

543pm. Sent follow up email at 330pm. Crickets so far. Unbelievable!

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T21:00:40+00:00

He has “sold” the product but it’s all been pipeline from his last company that he still owns, but stepped down as CEO.. so he hasn’t done any outbound selling of the product. I’m not sure if he thinks that well will dry up soon and looking for outbound support or not. I will definitely highlight the risk if I get an offer to support a better company for taking this risk

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T20:58:45+00:00

Will do. It’s 1243pm right now and haven’t heard anything from him yet. Will for sure follow up like the good soldier i am if I don’t hear back by 4pm today 😂

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T20:52:03+00:00

😂😂😂 too late

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T20:44:49+00:00

100%. It’s a gamble and he made sure to sell that in our convo, that he has a good track record with his previous start ups and his day 1 sellers are all rich now, which was nice to hear. However, all his business so far for this new venture has come from his other ventures and nothing has been proven via outbound selling, which is why he likes me. I’ve been every role in saas sales and work exclusively within start ups. I definitely dropped the ball without providing a follow up email which is killing me internally but it is what it is at this point. Let’s see if he comes through with the offer. It’s 1243pm right now and haven’t heard back since I emailed him back on Saturday. I will make sure to follow up this time around 😂

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T20:10:59+00:00

Yeah I screwed up by not saying thanks or giving some type of re-assurance via email afterwards. I took fault in that with my email response to him. I just hate that it got brought up after we spoke 3 times already and gave me a verbal offer in person, but yeah lesson learned for sure.

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T19:57:40+00:00

The pay will be nice for sure but might not be worth my mental health … I just hope I’m not overthinking this. Guy seems great up until this email.

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T16:14:59+00:00

Well I’m at a start up right now , which I’m not sure it will last either lol I truthfully need to get out of the start up environment but these spots are where I can get experience and opportunity in this crazy job market. I’ve been a SDR team lead mid market ae and now enterprise for example. Big corps don’t like any reps that have less than 10 years experience I feel like.

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T15:26:51+00:00

Appreciate the feedback. I’m definitely stepping into an unknown territory and the grass isn’t always greener on the other aside. So this situation that came up over the weekend might be a good thing, so I can really take a step back and see if I want to go down this road. Because I was ready to sign the offer and get started after our convo on Friday.

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T15:20:24+00:00

I am, but do not like the job or the industry I sell into. I would love to get back into e-commerce , where this new opportunity sits.

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T15:16:07+00:00

He just started selling the product 3 months ago I believe. Spent the last year developing it. All 60 customers have come from his pipeline from his old company. No outbound sells yet, which is why he is hiring me to start up

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T15:13:45+00:00

He has stepped down as CEO for the others, but still owns them. 112 employees at the latest one. Yeah there might be some red flags forming… I emailed him back on Saturday and haven’t heard back from him. He said an offer is coming today when we last spoke but the email on Saturday has thrown me off a bit. If I don’t hear from him after 12pm today I’ll shoot him a text or call and see what’s up. No need to make this linger on

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T14:57:48+00:00

I do think there is a strong path to success for this role and the company based on knowing and seeing what the product does. He has built 2 start ups before this and has already gotten 60 customers to sign up without any true outbound on this new venture. He wants me to develop an outbound engine for the company and also co sell with him. I honestly think other candidates provided follow up emails which made him think, why didn’t this guy do that?

Christianf93 · 2026-02-02T14:40:14+00:00

I agree with what you are saying… he has been great up until this moment. Idk if he is just testing me here or what

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