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What is your take on PLG vs sales-led sales?

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  1. Joe Goldberg
    Joe Goldberg

    Vanta Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Snowflake, Splunk, VMware, Sigma Computing • 2y

    It is not either/or. It is both. If “Product Led Growth” is using the product so a customer can self-evaluate, buy, implement, expand/renew, that is clearly a good thing as it accelerates the sales cycle, and frankly demanded by customers these days - most do not want to talk to sales early. And there is still plenty of room for sales to reach out to these quality, Product-Qualified Leads, drive upsells, and more. And at some point the self-serve trialer will want to engage with sales for a full ...Read More

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  2. 🟧 Hugo H. Macedo 🟧

    Advisor & Investor | Product Marketing Expert | B2B | Formerly Pandadoc,Unbabel, McKinsey • 2y

    You need to pick a favorite. Either you're PLG first or Sales-led first. Because there's many decisions that you have to make you need to pick sides.

    To make it easy, if Sales-led is at least 40% of the business, you'll be a Sales-led company - because the weight of having people on the sales team that you need to "feed" with leads/opps is just too big. People have names, and families to feed - so it will "force" you to prioritize them.

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