tomtunguz.com · 2019-05-30
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As Your Sales Team Scales, Focus on Your Middle
When scaling a sales team, enablement efforts should prioritize improving middle-quartile performers rather than top performers, despite similar marginal revenue gains. This approach builds consistency across a larger population, reduces bookings concentration risk, and creates more predictable growth—a key characteristic of attractive businesses.
Metrics in this report
Sales Quota Attainment
70-75%percent
target
Most sales teams aim for this attainment level
Sales Quota Attainment
86%percent
Hypothetical startup with 10 AEs generating $8.6M on $10M quota capacity