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Sales hiring, compensation, and revenue strategy are being rewritten—and Chad Pet and Chris Daggen explain why. In the full 20VC episode, Harry Stebbings sits down in London with two outspoken enterprise sales leaders to break down Anthropic’s comp-fueled talent market, why resume-driven hiring can backfire, and how founders should judge sales reps by pipeline generation, grit, and evidence—not brand names. This condensed summary turns the original full episode into a quick listen, highlighting key lessons on quotas, annual contracts vs. monthly revenue, multi-year deals, customer success, forward-deployed engineers, and what it really takes to build a high-accountability sales culture. If you want sharp insights on AI, enterprise software, startup leadership, and go-to-market execution, this is the fast version worth hearing. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.