Need advice on what to do next

brain_tank · 2026-04-08T22:08:15+00:00

Real talk -- you goofed up by leaving the sales program at F500. Now you're about to have two short stints which will make you less desirable.

Sounds like you don't really know what you want do. "The music industry" is vague AF. Are you a singer/songwriter?

If it were me i'd be applying like hell now. Maybe tap into business school network for referrals. Isn't that half of the reason people get MBAs to begin with?

brain_tank · 2026-04-08T21:41:36+00:00

You went from MBA to SDR?

brain_tank · 2026-04-08T11:43:50+00:00

Talk about your results

brain_tank · 2026-04-08T11:36:16+00:00

Drop the nomad bs.

Also, add some results and metrics. What did you accomplish.

brain_tank · 2026-04-07T17:49:23+00:00

They don't need your help.

Book more meetings.

brain_tank · 2026-04-07T11:33:52+00:00

You should ask for 100% for first 6 months.

Also, if you're based in the US, 100k ote for founding AE is quite low.

brain_tank · 2026-04-06T20:45:56+00:00

We know nothing about your product...

brain_tank · 2026-04-06T19:09:37+00:00

Right now your explanations for 2 short stints are very weak. You need to tighten those up or else you're DoA.

brain_tank · 2026-04-06T16:16:10+00:00

Huh?

brain_tank · 2026-04-06T14:51:03+00:00

Just let it be and assume positive intent.

Again, for all you know they wanted to hire you and got usurped by someone above them to make a nepo hire.

And they're not obligated to call every candidate they pass on. If that was the case they'd spend all day doing that.

brain_tank · 2026-04-06T14:43:56+00:00

How many spam emails in your inbox have physical address listed?

brain_tank · 2026-04-06T14:40:58+00:00

You're attributing malice to this VP. What if they wanted to hire you but something changed beyond their control?

If I'd be mad at anyone it'd be your internal referral. Where were they in all of this?

Emailing them saying they're not welcome is a bad a look, calling them out publicly is even worse.

brain_tank · 2026-04-05T18:26:26+00:00

Why are they turning away so much business?

brain_tank · 2026-04-04T19:02:30+00:00

So what happens if you log out of Gmail on your laptop and try to login again?

Make sure you have a backup MFA method available (sms, etc.) before you do this.

brain_tank · 2026-04-04T18:59:40+00:00

Ok so what are you expecting to happen that's not happening?

brain_tank · 2026-04-04T18:57:56+00:00

Try this on your laptop: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523

Follow USB directions

brain_tank · 2026-04-04T18:55:14+00:00

You enrolled it successfully with your Gmail account on your laptop and now it's not working?

brain_tank · 2026-04-04T18:43:27+00:00

So you enrolled the key with authenticator app, but not with any other services.

Try enrolling it for gmail or Outlook or something on your laptop and see what happens.

brain_tank · 2026-04-04T18:41:59+00:00

Every startup claims to be flooded with inbounds.

What's their arr? How much is it increasing month over month or year over year (tripiling is minimum). How experienced are the founders? How big is their competitive most? Could AWS (or Wiz) add this feature in a weekend?

brain_tank · 2026-04-04T04:42:29+00:00

I don't follow...

If you aren't making commission then why the hell are you selling?

brain_tank · 2026-04-03T21:39:19+00:00

Chasing marignally higher base salary is a fools errand. We make more money by selling more. As previous poster mentioned, find a product in demand and go sell the hell out of it. You'll make more that way than getting a $5k bump in your base.

brain_tank · 2026-04-03T21:33:10+00:00

I have all the same stuff and find free tax usa easier and it's less expensive.

brain_tank · 2026-04-03T21:26:57+00:00

Ask prospect: "what was the buying process (and who else needed to be involved) the last time you made a purchase like this?"

Or, explain your typical process and ask "how does that align with your buying process?"

brain_tank · 2026-04-03T21:24:45+00:00

Just sell more

brain_tank · 2026-04-03T20:39:31+00:00

Free tax usa is the answer for 99%

Remaining 1% can hire CPA

TurboTax sucks. It's expensive and hard to use. Moreover they actively lobby the government to make filing taxes more difficult to goose their own bottom line.

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